Georgetown: The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) recently commissioned the southern section of its $94 million new wing. The facility, which is equipped with 39 beds, will be used to house patients in the instance of overcrowding in the hospital.
This section of the unit was established at a cost of approximately $38 million and has separate areas for the housing of male and female patients.
GPHC Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Michael Khan, during the commissioning ceremony, noted that this section of the building will be utilised for patients from the general and orthopaedic wards.
He also noted that the northern section of the unit, which is equipped with 57 beds, bringing the total number of beds to 96, has been identified for the housing of emergency patients when there is overcrowding at the Accident & Emergency (A&E) unit, along with other medical patients.
However, this section has not yet been commissioned, as part of it has been identified as the isolation unit set up by the hospital in preparation for the Ebola virus threat.
Also present at the brief ceremony were Health Minister, Dr Bheri Ramsaran and several staff of the hospital.
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