-Six maternity cases were moved to the facility
–Additional cases to be relocated today
The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, located at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, received its first batch of COVID-19 patients on Tuesday, September 01.
Six patients from the maternity section of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were transferred to the health facility on Tuesday, the facility on August 30, and disclosed that it currently holds 197 beds, and will grant 50 percent usage during Phase One, thus removing the burden from GPHC, allowing them to cater for more severe cases and non-COVID-19 patients.
Thus far electricity, water availability and proper sewage were hurdles that have delayed the transfer of patients. The Ministry of Health has been working assiduously with the Public Works and Housing and Water Ministries to fix issues that have posed challenges in the facility becoming properly and fully equipped to accommodate COVID-19 patients.
The facility possesses an isolation unit, and a section to house patients awaiting their COVID-19 test results. The facility was conceptualised and built by the now opposition, previous coalition government and is today the premier facility for COVID-19 patients.