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MICHAEL MARTZ
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia mental hospitals are struggling with âdangerously highâ numbers of patients, prompting them to delay admissions and straining the ability of law enforcement officers to maintain custody of people in psychiatric crisis who are waiting for treatment.
Behavioral Health Commissioner Alison Land told legislators on Tuesday that the stateâs eight public mental hospitals for adults are operating at 96% of their capacity. Crowding is worst at Central State Hospital, outside of Petersburg, which is 99% full, while Eastern State Hospital near Williamsburg and Western State Hospital in Staunton are operating at 98% of their capacity.
âThe picture is bleaker, not better,â Land told the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the 21st Century.
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Article by April 7, 2021
All Barbadians acknowledge that the Harrison’s Point facility is the focal centre for treatment of persons who are afflicted with the COVID–19 virus.
The residents at this facility are being cared for by a committed and dedicated team of health professionals. Hospital employees and health care providers are on the frontline in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic which has affected many.
It is therefore incumbent on all individuals to search for ways to provide the help and support that the professionals need, that is, apart from staying at home and following the protocols.
Read and follow the timeline below:
8.1.2021 - Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley says that a few vaccines will be made available to Barbados.
14.1.2021 - Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley told Barbadians in an address that she received her first dose of a COVID vaccine. She along with the Attorney General Dale Marshall, the Health Minister Lt Col Jeffrey Bostic and some frontline workers.
9.2.2021 - Barbados receives a donation of 100,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, also known as Covishield. The doses were a grant from India.
10.2.2021 - St Lucia received 1,000 doses of the vaccine from the Government of Barbados.
11.2.2021 - Governor General Dame Sandra Mason received her first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine today.