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A patient receives dialysis at the facility in Georgetown last Thursday. (Photo: Luke Browne/Facebook)
A patient receives dialysis at the facility in Georgetown last Thursday. (Photo: Luke Browne/Facebook)
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The Ministry of Health, on Thursday, conducted a test case of dialysis at the long-delayed Modern Medical Complex in Georgetown, which could open this month.

Minister of Health, Sen. Luke Browne made the disclosure at an event in Kingstown where the government signed two cooperation agreements with Taiwan, which was represented by its Minister of Foreign Affairs, David Lee.

Browne said that his ministry is finalising preparations that would allow the government to open the modern medical complex.

“In fact, as I speak, I am aware that going on right now is the first test case of dialysis being done at that modern medical complex,” he said.

“So we, in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, will enter a new age of health care and I mention this at this event because Taiwan, for that project, donated, I believe it was 1.5 million [dollars] worth of medical equipment so that we would be in a position to open that facility.

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“That is a facility that is going to put us on a different platform in relation to health. And just as that facility will put us on a different platform in relation to health, the agreement that is going to be signed today by our respective ministers of foreign affairs is going to also contribute to a strengthening of our situation, where health is concerned,” Browne said.

The agreements included one on diabetes prevention and control.

In delivering the Estimates of Income and Expenditure on Jan. 29, Minister of Finance, Camillo Gonsalves said that the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment has been allocated 35 posts this year to strengthen hospital, community health and mental health services.

There are also additional posts related to the Modern Medical Complex, which were not reflected in these Estimates because they had been planned for previously.

iWitness News understands that the government is considering opening the complex on Feb. 14.

The finance minister said that this year, the government would add a considerable amount of staff at the complex.

“Forty-eight, I believe, locals, and an additional 23 experts from Cuba, who will be joining the modern Medical Complex at Georgetown, I believe I have not misspoken there, Honourable Minister of Health,” Gonsalves said.

4 replies on “Dialysis trials begin at Georgetown medical complex”

  1. We need to control our consumption levels of starch and overload of sugars,and eat proper foods. I think it’s time food manufacturing company’s start up more programmes and funding in this need to help to minimise a health problem they create purposely around the globe.

  2. All that is needed is for healthy prioritized nutrition with emphasis on therapeutic nutrition and health to be the focus, People need to be educated as to what constitute portion controls in the foods that they consume and learn the principles of maintaining a healthy balance in their diets by initiating diversity in the foods that they consume. These programs would best be served by introducing and reinforcing them in the educational system by making nutritional education compulsory to all grades and up to a certain level and balancing it with chemistry, biology, botany and anatomy and physiology, so that there would be more interest in the healing sciences and it will counterbalance nutrition wellness and health. If children are taught these principle then they in turn would serve the purpose of reeducating the adults in their homes by being positive examples of change.

    This does not mean that other programs need not be introduced to educate the underlying communities,. The reason I am saying to start educating the children at an early age is that their minds are so very impressionable and if this does not jive with what they are being fed, then they would more be apt to question what they were taught and what they are eating.

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