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High rating for health care

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BARBADOS iIS THE third highest ranked Caribbean country for the quality of its health care system.

So said Democratic Labour Party candidate for St Thomas and general practitioner Dr Rolerick Hinds.

He was delivering the weekly DLP Astor B Watts Lunchtime lecture at DLP headquarters, George Street, yesterday.

“We are ranked number 46 in the world as far as health care delivery is concerned. That is out of 197 countries. The only country from this part of the region which comes before us is Dominica,” he said. (HLE)

Please read the full story in today’s Saturday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.

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