Latest update November 26th, 2024 1:00 AM
New $B inpatient facility to be occupied by month-end
The spanking new building located aback of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s compound is expected to be fully operational by the end of this month.
This is according to Chief Executive Officer of GPHC, Michael Khan, who in an invited comment yesterday disclosed that within the next two weeks, staff of the hospital will be removing patients from the old wards and relocating them in the new building.
He however noted that priority will be given to patients of the Female Medical and Female Surgical wards.
“We plan to have these patients relocated first, after which we will focus on the other wards which will include Male Medical and Male Surgical.”
The new facility is expected to provide considerable relief in terms of accommodation
According to Khan, the official ribbon-cutting ceremony and opening of the building will be announced at a later date.
Works on the building commenced in 2010 with a budgetary allocation of $716M for the first phase, while earlier this year an additional $235M was budgeted for its completion.
This spanking new facility which is located on Lamaha Street, between East and Thomas Streets, will accommodate approximately 300 inpatients. Each bed in the new facility will be equipped with modern centralised monitoring devices such as gas masks and heart and blood pressure monitors.
In addition, some 65 doctors and 60 nurses have already been identified to staff the new wing.
This new facility is expected to significantly ease the situation of overcrowding at the current facility. Recently there have been instances of patients having to share beds in congested surroundings.
Meanwhile, Khan pointed out that a section of the building which is currently housing male patients will be dismantled. He however noted that the hospital is still to determine what that building will be used for when the patients are relocated.
The construction of the inpatient facility was undertaken by R. Bassoo and Sons Construction Company.
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