The multi-million-dollar Lethem Hospital (front view).

A statement from the Government Information Agency (GINA) said the Lethem hospital will be the leading health institution in Region Nine as it will be outfitted with modern equipment and will be offering a range of services. It will boast theaters, in-patient and out-patient facilities, pharmacy and laboratory.

The new state-of-the-art Lethem Hospital (back view).

The Administration is at present training hundreds of nurses at the three nursing schools located in Georgetown, Linden and New Amsterdam. Among the lot are students from Region Nine who are slated to return to Lethem to serve at the new institution, the Minister said.

The new hospital will be initially run by the staff from the old hospital and the Ministry of Health will periodically send in “roaming visiting teams” to complement its work.

One of the tenets of the administration is to have equity of services and improved quality of health care delivered to all of Guyana, the Minister said, and for that reason the Administration continues to pioneer the reconstruction of the physical infrastructure of the health sector in order to provide Guyanese with the best and modern health care facilities, GINA reported.