Assistant Administrator, Mrs. Marjorie Park, of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, contends that the health care facility will be rebuilt as “definite plans” are in the pipeline to restore it to its full functional capacity.
According to her all staffers are accommodated and the private doctors operating out of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital have also been provided for.
Park pointed out that prior to these accommodations being made, the private doctors functioned at the Guyana Red Cross headquarters on Barrack Street, Kingston.
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Park made it clear that from today, the out-patient services will be available at the hospital as per normal.
“The in-patient wards are cleaned,” she said. “We will be bringing back our patients some time next week. Right now with the demolition going on, the noise nuisance would inconvenience them.”
The Assistant Administrator highlighted that water supply, which posed a problem after the fire, and other utilities are no longer a challenge for the hospital.
Also, she said the one theatre that was saved from damage during the fire is undergoing some work in an effort to make it functional once more.
She observed too that the successes to date are owing to the generous support that various stakeholders have offered the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.
“In their messages and in their donations of cash and kind we have recognized their support, and are grateful,” she said.
The hospital at 132 Parade Street, Kingston, one of the premiere health care delivery institutions, was ravaged by fire last Monday morning.
Losses included the offices of private doctors that functioned from the hospital, the emergency room, the admissions and discharge section, the nursing service area, and one of two operating theatres, and medical records.
Meanwhile, Chief Fire Officer, Mr. Marlon Gentle, in an invited comment, said investigations into the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital fire are ongoing.