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GPHC begins construction of In-patient wing
Workers at the construction site.
Works are ahead of schedule on the $1.8 billion modernised in-patient hospital wing, which is being constructed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The hospital wing is expected to be completed by August next year.
During a visit to the construction site yesterday, Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy, noted that pile driving activities have been completed. Works on the foundation for walls and supporting columns for the construction of the first floor of the facility are progressing rapidly.
In a press statement issued to the media yesterday, Minister Ramsammy expressed satisfaction with the pace of the works which are two months ahead of schedule.
The construction of the facility is in keeping with the administration’s thrust of improving the quality and efficacy of health care services by modernising and upgrading health care facilities countrywide.
The upgrade of the facility is being conducted within the GPHC’s master plan and the national development strategy.
According to Dr. Ramsammy, the aim is also to integrate and consolidate in-patient services which are currently dispersed at the institution.
The new wing is being constructed to accommodate approximately 300 in-patients. On completion of the first phase, surgical patients will be transferred to the surgical ward of the upgraded facility.
Each bed in the new facility will be equipped with modern centralized monitoring devices such as gas masks and heart and blood pressure monitors.
Some 65 doctors and 60 nurses have already been identified to staff the new wing.
In the meanwhile, services are continuing at the hospital as the institution has taken steps to temporarily relocate departments that were located in and around the construction site.
The Gynaecology Clinic was re-sited to Ward E, in the southern compound; the Low Vision Centre, to the multipurpose room area (beneath the medical library); and the Public Safety Department (internal security) to the ground floor of the administrative building (information desk area).
The construction is being executed by R. Basso Contracting Firm.
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