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Patient relocation to new Inpatient building over

Oct 29, 2011 News

 

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation has announced that the relocation of patients to the new inpatient building has been completed. The relocation exercise started early yesterday morning and by last evening each patient were in the comfort of their own beds inside of the new facility.
The patients of the Female Surgical Ward have now joined the first set to have been relocated on October 16, 2011. They now enjoy the comfort, space and beauty of which the new facility boasts.
According to a statement from the hospital already all the necessary staff, furniture and equipment have been stationed on the flat to ensure the continued provision of quality health care to the patients.
The spanking new building located within the Georgetown Public Hospital compound was completed during the latter part of September. The relocation of the patients started immediately after. The first set of patients to be relocated included those in the Female Medical and Female Surgical Wards.
Works on the building commenced last year with a budgetary allocation of $716M for the first phase. Earlier in this year an additional $235M was budgeted for its completion.
This spanking new facility which is located between Lamaha and Thomas Streets will accommodate approximately 300 in-patients.  Each bed in the new facility will be equipped with modern centralized monitoring devices such as gas masks and heart and blood pressure monitors.
Already some 65 doctors and 60 nurses have been identified to staff the new wing.
This new facility will also ease the situation of overcrowding at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

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