MORE than 30,000 Region Five residents are set to benefit from improved healthcare services when the construction of the Bath Regional Hospital is complete.

At the moment, construction works are progressing smoothly and when complete, it will be a tertiary care centre with a variety of amenities.

The government is investing more than $40 billion to construct six hospitals, including the regional hospital at Plantation Bath.

Other state-of-the-art facilities are set to be built in Skeldon, Region Six; Enmore, and Diamond, Region Four; Tuschen, Region Three; and Anna Regina, Region Two. Each of the new regional hospitals will be 65,000 square feet.

The Bath Regional Hospital will have 75 inpatient rooms, three theatres, a modern medical laboratory, a neonatal unit, a 24-hour accident and emergency department and several outpatient departments.

The Irfaan Ali-led administration has presented a host of proposals for the health system and said this project is part of a larger $37.2 billion initiative that will modernise the regional healthcare system in Guyana.

Over the next few years, according to President Ali, the government wants to train and attract a significant number of healthcare professionals to provide not just health care, but the best, world-class medical services to the people of Guyana.