The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has com­plet­ed the first phase of an elec­tri­cal and light­ing up­grade project at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC). The work, which be­gan last month, in­clud­ed the in­stal­la­tion and re­pair of 120 light­ing fix­tures across park­ing ar­eas, road­ways, and oth­er high traf­fic ar­eas. The project re­ceived sup­port from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC).

The sec­ond phase of the up­grade is on­go­ing and will fo­cus on re­plac­ing de­fec­tive light poles and in­stalling ad­di­tion­al light­ing fix­tures to pro­vide full il­lu­mi­na­tion cov­er­age across the EWM­SC cam­pus. These up­grades are part of a broad­er elec­tri­cal project that al­so in­clud­ed the in­stal­la­tion of a new trans­former in Sep­tem­ber to im­prove the safe­ty and sta­bil­i­ty of the fa­cil­i­ty’s pow­er sup­ply.

In ad­di­tion to the light­ing works, NCRHA com­plet­ed cool­ing sys­tem up­grades at the Adult In­ten­sive Care Unit (AICU) of the EWM­SC. Be­tween 24th and 26th Oc­to­ber 2025, a new air-con­di­tion­ing sys­tem was in­stalled, in­clud­ing two air han­dlers and four con­densers, re­plac­ing units in op­er­a­tion for over 15 years. Staff re­port­ed a cool­er en­vi­ron­ment, which is ex­pect­ed to al­low the re­sump­tion of car­diac and oth­er crit­i­cal sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures pre­vi­ous­ly post­poned due to the de­fec­tive sys­tem.

NCRHA Chair­man Dr. Tim Gopeesingh com­mend­ed the teams and part­ner stake­hold­ers for their pro­fes­sion­al­ism. Dr. Gopeesingh stat­ed that the up­grades were es­sen­tial to im­prov­ing pa­tient safe­ty, com­fort, and care qual­i­ty. He added that the im­prove­ments re­flect the au­thor­i­ty’s com­mit­ment to de­liv­er­ing ef­fi­cient and re­li­able health­care to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.