GPHC’s Paediatric Ward to be relocated

Oct 06, 2014 News

Come this December, children hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will be in a “kiddies friendly” ward with bigger space to play while they are being treated.

This will be the new entrance to the Paediatric Ward come December.

This is according to the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Khan during a recent interview with this newspaper.
Khan said that the Paediatric Ward will be relocated to the middle flat of the New Wing, which is currently facilitating the Male Surgical and Medical Wards.
He said that representatives from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have already volunteered in painting the walls of the Paediatric Ward to make it child friendly.
Also, 28 nurses from the medical institution were trained and are now capable of offering an advanced level of paediatric care, compliments of JICA.
The GPHC and JICA have been partnering for the past five years in an effort to have local medical staffers better trained.
Construction is underway on the bottom flat of the new wing to facilitate the relocation of the male patients.
The CEO explained that the new male facility will have a total of 100 beds.
The northern section facing Lamaha Street will be converted into a 60-bed unit and will house male medical patients while the southern wing will have 40 beds and the male surgical patients will be hospitalized there.
According to the Khan, the Male Medical Ward is for patients with medical complications such as diabetes and malaria, while the surgical ward is for patients who would have had surgeries done.
The CEO said that construction will be completed by December and the wards will be moved.

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