The great irony here is that this was preventable to a great extent IF they had simply treated every patient as though they had the infection and taken the necessary precautions! Hospital visits should have been stopped from the very first COVID case was diagnosed in the country.
How could you have potentially infected persons with no symptoms walking onto the hospital as visitors anyway? Sad and careless!

I heard they are giving Bahamian patients hydroxychloroquine as well. (I guess because Trump said it) SMH <br/><br/>This is a quote on CNN from the FDA:<br/>
"**The drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine**, should only be used in clinical trials because they **can kill** or cause serious side effects, the FDA said. These include serious heart rhythm problems in Covid-19 patients treated with the drugs, especially when they are combined with the antibiotic azithromycin."

Huh ? What an interesting concept. They have the entire healthy population of the Bahamas in totalitarian quarantine lockdown to stop the spread but sick people wandering into the hospital can expose 200 health care workers. Good luck Bahamas. These doctors in charge are going to have us locked down till the end of days

Oh no, more excuses to kill the economy using the death of the poor victims of the virus as the reasoning. I am sure this was preordained.
The Hospital and its leadership, like that of the Country, is beyond useless. My sympathies to the families of the departed.

Yep. Might as well blow all your B$'s right now because another month of lockdown and mass unemployment, devastating taxes, foreclosures and a worthless currency are all we can look forward to......as well as going to the beach and not getting arrested

Very careless, how could 200 Medics, the army on the front line of the battle (COVID-19) be put in a position to be taken hostage. The General in charge of this battle operation should be removed, all we need now is one more careless move like this and we would be captured to COVID-19.

It is a pity that all the smart people who have all the answers to run our country are too busy blabbing on the Tribune's message boards.

@tet it is better to listen to and engage the complainers than call them complainers even if they are complainers .

You can win people over just by showing them that you value their opinion, that you've considered how to incorporate it "or" you show why it doesnt fit the objective

In fact the hospital itself is also reviewing the procedures because like the commenters above they realize that there is a better way.

You being one of them 🤣?

**Think about it where are the signs of the colony's comrade First among equals photo ops having been suspended?**
Beginning with the death very first and each of the **10 thereafter deaths** clearly points to this government's **preferred priority** is to launch a preemptive pre-general election campaign strike against an almost non-existing enemy the Queen's official opposition.
What should more alarm PopoulacesOrdinary at-.large is despite the 11 **official** deaths is that the 35 House elected Imperialists Redshirts party's MP's **hasn't seen fit suspend its pre-general election campaign!**
It's important to remember that the pre-general election campaign **has remained** well underway **since 8 O'clock on night January 31, 2020.** Nod once for yeah, twice for no?

With respect of determining when the Virus may "peak" in the Bahamas, they are probably overlooking the fact that with such relatively small numbers, a few extra cases can push that around very easily. Following trends goes out the window with smaller groups.
Second, Seems the hospital needs a lock down more so than the country.
Nassau is still the hot spot, Out islands have gone quiet. Perhaps time to consider opening safe islands to internal function, with social distancing.
A pure medical approach is a double edged sword.

For several months global healthcare organizations around the world have made it known that persons living or working in nursing homes for the elderly, and healthcare providers working in hospitals or other medical treatment facilities, are at very great risk of becoming infected with the deadly covid-19 virus. This has been plastered all over cable tv news and other forms of news media since the end of January. Yet somehow our country's government leaders and senior healthcare officials did not have the sense or presence of mind to establish and maintain appropriate policies and procedures, nor procure the necessary personal protection equipment, to properly address this very great risk.

And you would think that because our country's healthcare system was already suffering from a severe shortage of properly trained and qualified doctors and nurses, all the more effort would have been made by our government leaders and senior healthcare officials to put in place policies and procedures aimed at ensuring our medical doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel were all provided with adequate protection from unnecessary exposure to this lethal virus. But "No", this did not happen!

The bottom line: From Minnis and Sands right on down, we have observed to date nothing but utter and outrageous incompetence in dealing with both the health and economic implications of this most dreadful crisis. It couldn't possibly be any worse than if one deliberately tried to make it so! Frankly, we would as a country and a people probably be much better off if Minnis and Sands just went away on a very long vacation to one of our more isolated family islands without any means to communicate with others in our government.

Reminds me of the story on the method for validating (and fudging) Cancer treatment cure rates,
a few test subjects die, so they're removed from the results, with the note "the patient failed the treatment" (documented, can cite source)
This tunnel vision that is becoming evident from the Medical side of this is driving this bus over the cliff in all other respects.