NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART BOUTIQUE MEDICAL CAMPUS SLATED FOR BARBADOS

A NEW state-of-the-art ‘Boutique’ Medical Campus, which will provide surgical and diagnostic care for local, regional and international patients, is slated for Barbados.

Word of this came from developers, Universal Medical Advance Center Inc., (UMAC), who have earmarked 13-acres of land at Kent, Christ Church (to the adjacent east of the Wildey Gymnasium) as the proposed site for the new facility.

The planned Medical Campus will consist of an ultramodern Surgical Hospital offering general, plastic and specialised surgeries as well as cardiology and urology procedures.  A Medical Office housing an Imaging Centre for MRIs, X-Rays, Mammography, Radiation therapy and the like; a Diagnostic and Laboratory Services/Pathology Department and a Brain and Rehab Centre for Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy, will also be key features of the facility.

A NEW state-of-the-art ‘Boutique’ Medical Campus, which will provide surgical and diagnostic care for local, regional and international patients, is slated for Barbados.

The developers explained that the advanced Campus, which will be Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited and certified to ensure the highest healthcare standards are maintained, will also be home to a Diabetic Centre, a pharmacy, Multi-Specialty Clinics and an Infusion Centre for Chemotherapy, Rheumatology/Arthritis, Antibiotics/HIV, Neurology and Iron/Haematological/Blood Infusions.

They added that the planned facility will not only offer significantly improved medical services for Barbadians, but is also expected to  create over 400 jobs and raise the island’s medical care profile in the expanding ‘health tourism’ market. (PR)