New Point Fortin Hospital fully open after 8-month move

THE new $1.2 billion Point Fortin Hospital is now 100 per cent functional, as the move from the old building was completed on Monday.

The hospital, at the corner of Techier Road and the Point Fortin Main Road, was officially opened by the Prime Minister in July, 2020. But departments were transferred there gradually over the following months.

The facility has 100 beds and more advanced technology than its predecessor at Volunteer Road, Mahaica, which had just 39 beds. Built by Shell in the 1930s as a hospital for its employees, it was donated to the government in 1967.

The new hospital offers services including general medicine, general surgery, a burns unit, psychiatry, paediatric/adolescence, high dependency and accident and emergency.

Other services will include: general x-ray, CT scans, general ultrasound, mammography, laboratory services and endoscopy. Patients previously had to go to the San Fernando General Hospital for CT scans and x-rays, among other things.

Point Fortin MP Kennedy Richards Jr and Point Fortin Mayor Saleema Thomas visited on Monday and spoke with the hospital's executive management team.