Health officials confirm scabies cases at Geriatric Hospital

Health officials have officially diagnosed the skin condition affecting nine patients at the Geriatric Hospital as scabies.

Scabies is an infectious disease caused by a specific mite known as the itch mite.

During a media briefing at the Pan American Health Organisation, Dayrells Road, Chief Medical Officer, The Most Honourable Dr. Kenneth George, said it was nothing they had not dealt with before and that there was no cause for public alarm.

However, he noted that one staff...