Health Min­is­ter, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh toured the New San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal Project with UDe­COTT Chair­man Noel Gar­cia on Wednes­day morn­ing. Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for To­co/San­gre Grande Roger Mon­roe was al­so among the tour­ing par­ty.

Af­ter be­ing briefed on the over­all con­struc­tion Sta­tus of the three-storey, 106-bed hos­pi­tal, they were in­vit­ed to walk through the fa­cil­i­ty. Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Min­istry of Health, it is the in­ten­tion of the Min­istry and the ER­HA to be­gin op­er­a­tions in March this year. It is be­lieved the ER­HA will be able to pro­vide a broad­er suite of ser­vices to the Va­len­cia, San­gre Grande, To­co, Matelot, Cu­mu­to, Man­zanil­la and Ma­yaro dis­tricts with the ad­di­tions of the fol­low­ing:

– Ear Nose & Throat (ENT) De­part­ment

– Ded­i­cat­ed Blood Bank

– Pathol­o­gy Ser­vices

– Full time Car­di­ol­o­gy

– Flu­o­roscopy

– MRI imag­ing mov­ing from 16-slice CT to 128-slice CT

The hos­pi­tal will have its own oxy­gen gen­er­at­ing ca­pac­i­ty for its three Op­er­at­ing The­atres and ten Crit­i­cal Care Units. There will al­so be ded­i­cat­ed Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ments for pe­di­atric and ma­ter­nal ser­vices.

Staff at the Hos­pi­tal can look for­ward to uti­liz­ing a new teach­ing cen­tre, con­fer­ence room, li­brary, on-call rooms, gym and well­ness cen­tre.

Min­is­ter Deyals­ingh says he was sat­is­fied with the rate of progress and em­pha­sized that as the project moves from con­struc­tion to the com­mis­sion­ing stage to the com­ple­tion stage that com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the gen­er­al pub­lic is crit­i­cal to a suc­cess­ful tran­si­tion.