Health in Anguilla

Last updated

Health in Anguilla is managed by the Health Authority of Anguilla, an agency of the Government of Anguilla.

Contents

Storm damage

Health facilities were devastated in 2017 as a result of Hurricane Irma. Immediate medical support was provided by the Pan American Health Organization and Direct Relief. [1] The British government and charitable donations have contributed towards the rebuilding program. Tim Foy says "The United Kingdom government is committed to the full rehabilitation of the Princess Alexandra Hospital".

Healthcare

In November 2018 it established a charitable foundation, the Health Authority of Anguilla Foundation, which is to be registered in Delaware as a 501(c)(3) organization which will allow tax-free contributions from donors in the USA. This is intended to help close "the gap between the health needs and desires of the community and the capacity to meet these needs and desires". [2]

People on the island often use health facilities on St. Maarten. Their access to the British NHS is limited. [3] There are concerns about the effect of Brexit on access to medicine and medical treatment. [4]

The Ministry of Health and Social Development employed Dr. Olufunmike Banks-Devonish as a Clinical Psychologist in November 2018, the first full-time clinical psychologist to be employed by the Anguilla Public Service. [5]

Water

Water supply is the responsibility of the Water Corporation of Anguilla, which entered into a 10 year contract with Seven Seas Water, a subsidiary of AquaVenture Holdings Limited in October 2018 for the supply of 500 thousand gallons per day, due to expand to 750 thousand gallons per day. [6] Testing of water on the island is done by the St. Maarten Laboratory Services. [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anguilla</span> British Overseas Territory in the Leeward Islands

Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. The territory consists of the main island of Anguilla, approximately 16 miles long by 3 miles (5 km) wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population. The territory's capital is The Valley. The total land area of the territory is 35 square miles (91 km2), with a population of approximately 15,753 (2021).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">British Virgin Islands</span> British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean

The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles and part of the West Indies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Economy of Anguilla</span>

The economy of Anguilla depends heavily on luxury tourism, offshore banking, lobster fishing, and remittances from emigrants. Due to its small size, few natural resources, and reliance on tourism and foreign direct investment, Anguilla is vulnerable to external economic conditions in the United States, Canada and Europe. Therefore, economic growth in Anguilla can be very volatile. Anguilla's currency is the East Caribbean dollar, though the US dollar is also widely accepted. The exchange rate is fixed to the US dollar at US$1 = EC$2.70.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Psychologist</span> Professional who evaluates, diagnoses, treats and studies behavior and mental processes

A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how individuals relate to each other and to their environments.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saint Martin (island)</span> Small island in the Caribbean

Saint Martin is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87-square-kilometre (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but the Dutch part is more populated than the French part. The division dates to 1648. The northern French part comprises the Collectivity of Saint Martin and is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic. The southern Dutch part comprises Sint Maarten and is one of four constituent countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Even though the island is an overseas possession of two European Union member states, only the French part of the island is part of the EU.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Princess Juliana International Airport</span> Airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, Sint Maarten

Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. The airport is located on the Dutch side of the island, in the country of Sint Maarten, close to the shore of Simpson Bay Lagoon. In 2015, the airport handled 1,829,543 passengers and around 60,000 aircraft movements. The airport serves as a hub for Winair and is the major gateway for the smaller Leeward Islands, including Anguilla, Saba, Saint Barthélemy and Sint Eustatius. It is named after Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, who landed there while she was heir presumptive in 1944, the year after the airport opened. The airport has very low-altitude flyover landing approaches because one end of its runway is extremely close to the shore and Maho Beach. While Princess Juliana International is the primary aviation gateway to the island, there is also a smaller public-use airport on the French side, in the French Collectivity of Saint Martin, called Grand Case-Espérance Airport.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Collectivity of Saint Martin</span> French overseas collectivity, part of the island of Saint Martin in the Lesser Antilles

The Collectivity of Saint Martin, commonly known as simply Saint Martin, is an overseas collectivity of France in the West Indies in the Caribbean, on the northern half of the island of Saint Martin, as well as some smaller adjacent islands. Saint Martin is separated from the island of Anguilla by the Anguilla Channel. Its capital is Marigot.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sint Maarten</span> Dutch Caribbean island country

Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean region of North America. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of 34 km2 (13 sq mi), it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French overseas collectivity of Saint Martin. Sint Maarten's capital is Philipsburg. Collectively, Sint Maarten and the other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Dutch Caribbean.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Postage stamps and postal history of Sint Maarten</span>

Sint Maarten, a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, started issuing postal stamps after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010. The island thus became one of the five postage regions in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The first stamp issued showed the map of the island Saint Martin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gaston Browne</span> Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda since 2014

Gaston Alfonso Browne is an Antiguan politician serving as the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda and leader of the Labour Party since 2014. Before entering politics, he was a banker and businessman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Marlin</span> Sint Maarten politician

William Marlin is a Sint Maarten politician who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Sint Maarten from 2015 to 2017. Marlin was the leader of the National Alliance, and was the leader of the First and Second Marlin cabinet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Second Marlin cabinet</span>

The Second Marlin cabinet was the sixth Cabinet of Sint Maarten installed following the achievement of constituent country status of Sint Maarten within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010. The cabinet was a coalition between the National Alliance, the United St. Maarten Party and the Democratic Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hurricane Irma</span> Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2017

Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread destruction across its path in early September 2017. Irma was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Maria two weeks later. At the time, it was considered the most powerful hurricane on record in the open Atlantic region, outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, until it was surpassed by Hurricane Dorian two years later. It was also the third-strongest Atlantic hurricane at landfall ever recorded, just behind the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and Dorian. The ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, second major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane of the extremely active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Irma caused widespread and catastrophic damage throughout its long lifetime, particularly in the northeastern Caribbean and the Florida Keys. It was also the most intense hurricane to strike the continental United States since Katrina in 2005, the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in the same year, and the first Category 4 hurricane to strike the state since Charley in 2004. The word Irmageddon was coined soon after the hurricane to describe the damage caused by the hurricane.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Effects of Hurricane Irma in Florida</span>

Hurricane Irma was the costliest tropical cyclone in the history of the U.S. state of Florida, before being surpassed by Hurricane Ian in 2022. Irma developed from a tropical wave near the Cape Verde Islands on August 30, 2017. The storm quickly became a hurricane on August 31 and then a major hurricane shortly thereafter, but would oscillate in intensity over the next few days. By September 4, Irma resumed strengthening, and became a powerful Category 5 hurricane on the following day. The cyclone then struck Saint Maarten and the British Virgin Islands on September 6 and later crossed Little Inagua in the Bahamas on September 8. Irma briefly weakened to a Category 4 hurricane, but re-intensified into a Category 5 hurricane before making landfall in the Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago of Cuba. After falling to Category 3 status due to land interaction, the storm re-strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane in the Straits of Florida. Irma struck Florida twice on September 10 – the first as a Category 4 at Cudjoe Key and the second on Marco Island as a Category 3. The hurricane weakened significantly over Florida, and was reduced to a tropical storm, before exiting the state into Georgia on September 11.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2018 Sint Maarten general election</span>

Snap general elections were held in Sint Maarten on 26 February 2018 following a no confidence vote in the Second Marlin cabinet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jorien Wuite</span> Sint Maarten-Dutch politician and civil servant

Jorien Wuite is a Sint Maarten-Dutch civil servant, diplomat, and politician. Born in The Hague, she moved to Sint Maarten aged 32 to work in government. She rose to the position of Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports and served as Minister Plenipotentiary of Sint Maarten in the period 2018–19. She moved back to the European part of the Netherlands due to her election to the House of Representatives in 2021 as a member of the social liberal party Democrats 66 (D66).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Effects of Hurricane Irma in the British Virgin Islands</span>

The effects of Hurricane Irma in the British Virgin Islands were significant in terms of both human and socio-economic impact on the Territory. Hurricane Irma struck the British Virgin Islands as a Category 5 hurricane during the daylight hours of Wednesday, 6 September 2017. It caused widespread destruction, and killed a total of four people. The eye of the hurricane traveled over the three major islands in the group: Virgin Gorda, Tortola and Jost Van Dyke.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital is a small hospital on Anguilla.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Red Cross Sint Maarten</span>

Red Cross Sint Maarten is the Red Cross national society of Sint Maarten. While technically it is an overseas branch of the Netherlands Red Cross it is registered as an independent entity under Sint Maarten law, auxiliary to the Government of Sint Maarten. Its mission is to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it occurs, increasing the self-sufficiency of the communities of Sint Maarten, and ensuring that there is respect and willingness to help in the society. In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma it played an important role in helping the affected people in the country.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">COVID-19 pandemic in Anguilla</span> Ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Anguilla

The COVID-19 pandemic in Anguilla is part of the ongoing global viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was confirmed to have reached the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla on 26 March 2020. On 26 April 2020, all patients had recovered and on 22 November a new imported case was announced.

References

  1. ↑ "Hurricane Irma: One Year Later". Reliefweb. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. ↑ "Health Authority of Anguilla lays out purpose and goals of its Foundation". Daily Herald. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Video: Fergusson Speaks To British Committee". BerNews. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  4. ↑ "Cluff in Anguilla for opening of maternity ward at hospital". Daily Herald. 21 November 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "Ministry of Health welcomes clinical psychologist to its staff". Daily Herald. 4 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Seven Seas Water Announces Execution of Water Agreement in Anguilla". PR Newswire. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "SLS is preparing to extend food analysis". Daily Herald. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.