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Barbados’ ageing population, high rate of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and low vaccination rate could be the recipe for a local variant of COVID-19, warns president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) Dr Lynda Williams.
Although Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George confirmed earlier this month that the Alpha variant (the British strain of COVID-19) was “fairly commonplace” in Barbados, she is renewing calls for a greater variant surveillance programme to determine what other strains are possibly circulating in the island.
Williams, a guest on
programme
yesterday, stressed the importance of knowing whether variants such as the highly-infectious Delta was prevalent, as that would determine if enough restrictions were in place to prevent further spread.
Misinformation driving vaccine hesitancy, medical professionals say
Article by July 25, 2021
Misinformation and misconstrued facts have played a major role in vaccine hesitancy in Barbados, even as the island grapples with a resurgence in COVID-19 numbers over the past few weeks.
Several medical professionals expressed this view during Sunday’s edition of
Down to Brass Tacks on
Voice of Barbados.
First Vice President of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP), Dr Adanna Grandison, said she was concerned with the abundance of medical misinformation in the public domain, saying many vocal critics of COVID-19 vaccines have been using unsupported medical reports to cement their stance against the vaccines.
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RAJKOT: Acting on a tip off, Detection of Crime Branch (DCB), Rajkot city, arrested a quack doctor who was operating a clinic for the last few years. The 37-year-old Vimal Sitapara, a resident of Shreenathiji society in Mavdi, was arrested on Wednesday for practising as a doctor without medical degree.
Sitapara has been running his clinic in Kotharia area for past four years. Earlier, he has worked as compounder at Madhuram hospital in the city. Police seized medicines, medical instruments, and Rs 22,756 in cash from his clinic and booked him under the Medical Practitioners act.
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