JESSE RAMDEO

Health min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh to­day an­nounced that the Point Fortin Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal will be de­com­mis­sioned as a COVID-19 fa­cil­i­ty and sub­se­quent­ly re­turned to the pub­lic seek­ing pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary care.

Speak­ing at to­day's Min­istry of Health press con­fer­ence, Min­is­ter Deyals­ingh said as of to­mor­row, Thurs­day 10 Feb­ru­ary 2022, no new COVID-19 pa­tients will be ad­mit­ted to the hos­pi­tal.

He added that the re­main­ing 28 pa­tients will not be moved but sent home or to a step-down fa­cil­i­ty, based on their re­cov­ery.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­is­ter, by mid-March, the nec­es­sary mea­sures would be tak­en to have the hos­pi­tal once again ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic.

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