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Health Manager Exploring Anguilla Link
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Claudine Hodge is one of those Anguillians born abroad who are hoping one day to lend their expertise to the continued development of the island.
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Claudine Hodge and her father Claude Hodge
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The highly-qualified health professional was born in Stoke on Trent just outside Birmingham, England, and is now residing and working in Canada where she grew up after her parents migrated there. She has been visiting Anguilla for the past three weeks. Her first visit here was in 1976. Now that her father, Claude Hodge of Statia Valley, has retired from Canada and is back in Anguilla, she took the opportunity to return to the island for what may be the start of some regular visits.
Miss Hodge did a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing following which she obtained a Master of Science degree in Health Administration from the University of Toronto. She has had a good deal of overseas experience, having served for three years in Saudi Arabia.
Her career choice was influenced by her mother Merlene Hodge (originally from Jamaica), who was trained in nursing in England and is serving in that profession in Canada.
The talented and well-spoken Health Administrator said that having followed in her mother’s footsteps she worked as a nurse in orthopaedic surgery before going into administration.
“I wanted to make changes,” she laughed. “Rather than working at the bedside, I thought I could do more as an administrator.”
Miss Hodge has spent part of her vacation visiting other neighbouring islands, travelling around Anguilla, meeting relatives and spending time at the beautiful beaches. As a health care provider, however, she took time to look at the island’s health and medical services. The Health Administrator, who manages a reno dialysis programme in Canada, was particularly interested in the dialysis unit at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and in diabetic education noting that there was a link between reno disease and diabetes.
“May be I can build some links between what I am doing in Canada with what is happening here. I am very interested in doing that,” she added. “In the meantime, it is very nice to be home again.”