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The annual flu vaccination starts today, October 8. Vaccination is between 14 and 15:30 on weekdays. There are two A-strains and one B-strain. […] More ›

Nurse Hörður Högnason has been hired as the director of nursing at the institution. Hörður was born on Ísafjörður in 1952 and graduated from the Íslands School of Nursing in 1978. He studied at More ›

The Epidemiologist, in collaboration with the Public Safety Department of the National Police, has published two instruction booklets for the influenza that is spreading around the world. The pamphlets are published, among other things, to teach and inform people More ›

Yesterday, May 28, it was agreed to hire nurse Hulda Karlsdóttir as head of the nursing department in Bolungarvík. Hulda was born in 1955 and graduated from the New Nursing School in 1978. Hulda […] More ›

Due to the summer leave of doctors and other staff, the opening hours of the health centers will be as follows: The health care in Suðureyri, Súðavík and Flateyri will be closed from June 1 - August 31. The health care in Þingeyri More ›

At the meeting of the organization's executive board on May 5, it was agreed to hire Þorstein Jóhannesson, chief medical officer, as medical director. Þorsteinn was born in Ísafjörður in 1951 and completed his medical degree from the University [...] More ›

Þorsteinn Jóhannesson, Director of Medicine at the Vestfjörður Health Institute, handed over the "Health Control Device" to Ögmund Jónasson, Minister of Health, when the latter visited the institute this morning. In fact, it was a knife handle and two blades. Thorsteinn said that More ›

Minister of Health Ögmundur Jónasson met this morning with the management of the Vestfjörður Health Institute and local councilors in the region. After that, he held a meeting with the organization's staff in its dining room at Torfnes in Ísafjörður. More ›

Children from the Music School in Ísafjörður visited the Vestfjörður Health Center in Ísafjörður just a moment ago. The children's choir sang a few songs and then the piano students played two hands at the end. This is not the music student's first visit More ›

Ríkiskaup now has for sale the property Aðalstræti 37 in Þingeyri. The building was previously used as a medical residence, but has been rented out in recent years. It is a residential building on 2 floors. More ›