Earlier this year, Health City Cayman Islands’ Chief Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Binoy Chattuparambil performed the facility’s first hybrid procedure to repair an aortic arch aneurysm. The procedure was made possible by the tertiary care hospital’s state-of-the art Hybrid Cath Lab – the only one of its kind in the Caribbean region. The patient was a…
For the first time in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Dr. Ravi Kishore, Chief Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Health City Cayman Islands, has implanted a Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM) device to treat heart failure in a Cayman Islands resident. Dr. Kishore implanted the device in late August, thereby making medical history in the…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (October 4, 2017) – A 33-year-old Caymanian father, son and brother is breathing again – with a sigh of relief – after the Health City Cayman Islands’ medical team brought him back from the brink of death. Bjorn Ebanks’ heart stopped twice, and he underwent CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) for almost 90 minutes before…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 25, 2017) – As the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla continues to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma, relief workers on a humanitarian mission from the Cayman Islands are providing vital medical support to the island’s health care system. Health City Cayman Islands staff nurses Mahesh Kumara and Bijin Mohan…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 23, 2017) – Leading Caribbean tertiary care hospital Health City Cayman Islands has been credited by St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Allen Chastanet with raising the bar for the future of health care in the Caribbean. Chastanet, who visited the Cayman Islands last week to meet with medical professionals at the three-and-a-half-year-old facility,…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 15, 2017) – In a first for the English-speaking Caribbean, neurosurgeons at Health City Cayman Islands have successfully performed another advanced procedure by surgically removing part of a brain tumor while the patient was awake. The procedure – known as awake craniotomy or awake brain surgery, enables the surgeons to remove, partly…
Cayman 27 | September 12, 2017 | By MARIO GREY
CAYMAN ISLANDS (September 12, 2017) – Health City Cayman Islands is part of a relief effort being coordinated by the Cayman Islands Government to send supplies, medicines and medical staff to Anguilla – a fellow British Overseas Territory. Dr. Chandy Abraham, CEO and Medical Director of the Caribbean tertiary care hospital, said that Health City…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (August 24, 2017) – A family vacation in a tropical paradise turned into a life or death situation for Surjeet Kaur when an unexpected viral infection became a critical health emergency. Advanced life support technology at Health City Cayman Islands, a tertiary care hospital located in East End, Grand Cayman, saved her life….
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (August 15, 2017 ) – After three years of success providing medical services to regional and international patients, a Cayman Islands hospital wants to work with other regional health care providers to meet the urgent demand for high quality and affordable tertiary health care in the Caribbean. Presenting at the Caribbean…
CAYMAN ISLANDS (July 16, 2017) – A leading hospital in the Caribbean is offering another first that could save the lives of heart patients across the Caribbean and the world. Health City Cayman Islands, the first hospital in the English-speaking Caribbean to use robotic navigation for joint replacements and the first to install two artificial…
Huffington Post | June 29, 2017 | By FIONA TAPP
