The Chairman of the Princes Town Regional Corporation, Mr Gowrie Roopnarine is calling on the Minister of Health to reopen the Tableland Health Centre.
According to this press release, residents from the Tableland area have to visit the Petite Café Health Centre to receive health care and due to the overwhelming turnout at that Health Centre, the residents of tableland are often turned away.
Details follow in this press release from the Chairman of the Princes Town Regional Corporation:
The Chairman of the Princes Town Regional Corporation, Mr. Gowrie Roopnarine is urging the Minister of Health to act responsibly and immediately reopen the Tableland Health Centre.
Presently, with the closure of the Tableland Health Centre, senior citizens and other residents from the Tableland area have to visit the Petite Café Health Centre to receive health care.
Furthermore, with the residents from the Fairfield Housing Development, the Ridgewood Housing Development in St Marys and the thousands of Venezuelans who reside in the area also using the Petite Café Health Centre, the staff is severly overwhelmed with hundreds of individuals on a daily basis and as a result of this, the residents of Tableland are often turned away.
It would take no longer than two months to renovate the Tableland Health Centre and Chairman is calling on the Minister to act swiftly to ensure that the renovation is completed.
Chairman is pleading with the Minister of Health to consider the severity of the situation and the lives of the senior citizens and urgently reopen the Tableland Health Centre.