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Budget Cuts Leave Barbados’ Health System Gasping for Air

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco

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Posted 10 July 2014 1:24 GMT

Who in their right mind believed that a 35 million dollar cut to the health budget 2013 would not have adversely affected healthcare delivery in Barbados?

Barbados Underground fears that the primary medical facility in the country, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, is on its death bed.

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