Our brave army is ready to do battle
FOR once, military metaphors do not seem overblown. The Princess Elizabeth Hospital stands ready to do battle, we are told.
FOR once, military metaphors do not seem overblown. The Princess Elizabeth Hospital stands ready to do battle, we are told.
THE hospital is preparing itself on the eve of battle, with beds, wards, staff and ventilators lining up to take care of Covid-19 cases.
A WOMAN has launched a fund raising appeal to help hospital staff who have been nursing her mother back to health from the Coronavirus.
SENIOR health staff on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus have pleaded with the public to stay at home, as suspected cases start to take up beds at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital.
ALL non-urgent outpatient appointments are suspended from today and family/friend visits to the PEH are suspended from tomorrow.
DEPUTY Heidi Soulsby, president of HSC, wants to ‘remove barriers in place which prevent pregnant women from seeking the care they require'. Few would disagree, but Deputy Soulsby is wrong that this is best done by radically liberalising Guernsey’s current abortion law.
PREPARATIONS are being made at the hospital - including cancelling elective surgery from next week - to cope with any escalation in coronavirus cases.
WITH the cruise liner and summer season on the horizon, have the States got any contingency plans for keeping the Guernsey community safe from the virus? As I understand it the PEH might have the odd isolation room, but nowhere near enough to cope with a major outbreak.
GUERNSEY has welcomed two leap year baby boys.
ANOTHER islander is being tested for the coronavirus Covid-19, bringing the total number of samples taken to 12.
FOLLOWING questioning, an Alderney resident has been charged with attempted murder.
THE MAN who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in Alderney has been transferred to Guernsey.
Director of public health Dr Nicola Brink gives an update on the measures Health & Social Care has in place to prepare for the possibility of a coronavirus pandemic.
AS the ballot opens this week on whether nurses should take unprecedented industrial action, the message from the other side of the negotiating table couldn’t be clearer – it will achieve nothing.
CRUCIAL boxing gloves were donated to the Guernsey Amalgamated Boxing Club by a local pub euchre team.