The South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) says that both the Urol­o­gy and Anaes­thet­ics de­part­ments are re­sourced to per­form al­ter­nate pro­ce­dures, which have not im­pact­ed the de­liv­ery of ex­cel­lent pa­tient care. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the South West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty:

The ex­ec­u­tive man­age­ment of the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA) is grave­ly con­cerned that an in­ter­nal com­mu­nique, which nei­ther re­flects the suc­cess­ful con­tin­gen­cies im­ple­ment­ed, nor man­age­ment’s ef­forts to re­solved in­ter­nal process­es, has been leaked ex­ter­nal­ly.

This breach in con­fi­den­tial­i­ty has there­fore led the Au­thor­i­ty to re­view its se­cu­ri­ty pro­ce­dures to pro­hib­it fu­ture oc­cur­rences. Fur­ther to the me­dia re­ports re­flect­ing same, the Au­thor­i­ty as­sures that both the Urol­o­gy and Anaes­thet­ics de­part­ments are re­sourced to per­form al­ter­nate pro­ce­dures, which have not im­pact­ed the de­liv­ery of ex­cel­lent pa­tient care.

Al­ter­na­tive­ly, the Au­thor­i­ty con­tin­ues to as­sid­u­ous­ly work with un­der­tak­ing re­pairs and re­place­ment to re­quired equip­ment, as well as to dili­gent­ly pro­cure that which is in diminu­tive sup­ply.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, while our sur­gi­cal man­age­ment sys­tem con­tin­ues to ros­ter our val­ued pa­tients for elec­tive uro­log­i­cal surg­eries and sev­er­al have been sched­uled as ear­ly as mid-2021, all emer­gency cas­es are pri­ori­tised and com­plet­ed, with due care and dili­gence.

Fi­nal­ly, the SWRHA wish­es to re­as­sure our val­ued clients and mem­bers of the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty that the Au­thor­i­ty, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Health and oth­er key part­ners are ac­tive­ly ad­dress­ing any sys­tem­at­ic short­ages. The SWRHA con­tin­ues to in­vite our val­ued pa­tients and clients to con­tact our Cus­tomer Care Cen­tre at 87-SWRHA (877-9742), for any mat­ter in re­la­tions to health­care.