Requests for Diego health centre before Cabinet

At a Public Board Meeting of the NWRHA held yesterday at the Government Campus Auditorium, Port of Spain, a member of the public asked if Government was still planning to build, during this fiscal year, a new health facility to house the Diego Martin Health Centre as the community was in dire need of proper services.

Agard said the NWRHA was aware that it was “very important to build” a new facility and a request for funding was before Cabinet, awaiting approval.

She said that as soon as approval was given work should begin on the construction.

The Central Block took centre stage, as a nurse attached to the new surgical ward located in the block said that there was no fire escape in the building.

The nurse said, the block houses a number of critical services including the intensive care unit and the critical surgical ward which has patients who will not be able to walk and will have to be assisted.