The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has received some much needed equipment for COVID-19 patients. The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization and the Government of Canada donated six High-Flow Nasal [...]
An employee of the Youth Department has tested positive for COVID-19. This has pushed the DYS to test a number of employees who came in contact with the individual. According [...]
As a result of this infected staff member, the DYS has taken the precaution of closing the office for a week and to get staff members who came in contact [...]
Several businesses have been conducting their own COVID-19 vaccination drives. Today at the Gordon House compound on Coney Drive in Belize City, RF&G Insurance collaborated with its partners to hold [...]
With only twenty percent of Belize’s police force getting their vaccination against COVID-19, despite being eligible from the earliest phases, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams today rolled up his sleeve [...]
And police officers are clearly at risk. In fact, News Five learned today that an officer from the Orange Walk Police formation has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. The department [...]
And for their part, is the Belize Defence Force using training opportunities as a means of forcing soldiers to take the vaccine? That’s a complaint that came to News Five [...]
Last week we told you about group of up to thirty-five Filipino nurses who have resigned, or will be resigning from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital to seek employment in [...]
The Nurses and Midwives Council of Belize has issued a statement on temporary nursing licenses and licensure examination following the controversy over foreign nurses departing Belize. The council says it [...]
The Commissioner of Police is sending a strong warning to anyone hosting social gatherings contrary to COVID-19 regulations. This includes those individuals and companies who have become creative and are [...]
The mass resignation of Filipino nurses from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital directly threatens the existing workforce at the national referral facility. It is anticipated that by the end of [...]
According to Doctor Sosa, the hospital is banking on a compassion of young nurses to fill the void that will be left upon the departure of the Filipino nurses. Should [...]
Coupled with the departure of the Filipino nurses, the K.H.M.H. is also experiencing a change at the management level where contracts for the Chief Executive Officer, as well as four [...]
It is World Blood Donor Day and the Belize National Blood Transfusion Services need safe blood and blood products for transfusion. Your voluntary blood donation to the bank contributes to [...]
To increase its voluntary blood donations, the National Blood Transfusion Services is calling on the young to voluntarily donate blood. Martinez says young people have the potential to contribute healthier [...]
The Government of Mexico has donated one hundred thousand doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Belize. A small ceremony was held at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on Sunday where [...]
With the donation, Belize now has approximately one hundred and fifteen thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccines in county. But while the COVID-19 vaccines keeps coming in, the reality is that [...]
An additional batch of COVID-19 vaccine will arrive next week through the COVAX facility. To date, more than seventy thousand Belizeans have received their first shot. Dr. Natalia Largaespada [...]
Of the seventy-two thousand Belizeans who have already received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, up to sixteen thousand have received their second and final shot. Doctor Beer says vaccination [...]
It was circulating on social media today, and now it is confirmed: there will be lots of vacancies opening up at the nation’s main referral hospital—four in upper management. News [...]
As many as thirty-five nurses, the majority of whom are from the Republic of the Philippines, have resigned from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. They are either returning to their [...]
After Minister of Health, Michel Chebat confirmed that nurses are leaving the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the Nurses Association of Belize responded. They say they find the Minister’s position to [...]
We also asked President Spencer if he thinks nurses are leaving the country to serve elsewhere because of better compensation. He says this is not true, and they also feel [...]
Finally, from the Nurses Association, President Spencer says nurses need clarification on the issue of overtime under the new reduced hours for public officers. Darrell Spencer, President, Nurses Association [...]
UNICEF Belize has donated refrigerators for COVID-19 vaccination storage to the Ministry of Health and Wellness. The handing over at the National Vaccine Building in Belmopan includes fourteen refrigerators that [...]
