Another hospital on Bernard's project list is one for Orange Walk. He says that a feasibility study is being conducted and so far they have been able to identify a piece of land to construct a new hospital. He explained what that will look like.
Kevin Bernard - Minister of Health & Wellness
"We are working at, in terms of the feasibility study, it is on its way I can tell you that from an update that I got from the ministry of economic transformation and nurse Bell, we have gotten the land donated and I want to thank BSI ASR, who contributed the land for the space where we are going to build the new hospital, so to inform you all that it is not going to be built at the same facility we are looking at plans for that existing facility it may want to ensure that maybe the maternal and child health section of healthcare remains at that facility because we have a new pediatric wing that is being built so the new hospital will then focus on all the other primary care and secondary care services that we need to provide. But again we are on target as you know that feasibility study started earlier this year and it had a 12 month span, and so right after, but the feasibility study is not just the design to say what we want or what we need to also design at the same time so that by the time it is completed we can go straight into bigs and get this thing going."
The new hospital for Orange Walk is set to be constructed within the vicinity of San Lorenzo road.
