Three floors at Cornwall Regional Hospital ready for use – Douglas
WESTERN BUREAU: THE FOURTH, fifth and sixth floors at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay are now ready to be put back into full service as the rehabilitation work to get that section of the hospital, which houses the operating theatre and intensive-care unit (ICU), has now been completed.
In an interview with The Gleaner on Thursday, Dr KenGarfield Douglas, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), said that the work to clear away mould from the three affected floors has now been completed and their ventilation system has been put back together.
MOULD INFESTED SYSTEM
“All the work related to the mould remedy has been done, so we have completely cleaned the area of mould,” said Douglas. “What was keeping us back was that the mould had infested the ventilation system, so we had to dismantle the ventilation system in the fourth and fifth floors and get that cleaned, so now, they are putting that system back together.”
“We should be able to return to using the theatre and the ICU by next week Tuesday ..., so that is good news for us. We are at better capacity, as 80 per cent of all our services are continuing. We are much better than we were four months ago.”
The WRHA director also gave an update on the projected plans for restorative work on the CRH’s seventh to tenth floors, for which the patients occupying the upper floors have already been relocated to another section of the hospital compound.
We are going in to ensure that every window that is broken, every tile that needs to be changed, and every bathroom that needs to be fixed will be addressed