NTTC, the Former Barbuda Hurricane Shelter To Be Used As Hospital

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A facility with housed hundreds of Barbuduans following Hurricane Irma is to be transformed into a hospital, the Cabinet decided yesterday.

The NTTC learning center on Nugent Avenue is being transformed into a mini-hospital of 75 beds.

The old Margetson Ward, blessed by the Dean of the Cathedral earlier this week, has been refurbished and re-purposed as an Infectious Disease Center (IDC), is classified as a ward of the MSJMC to receive Covid-19 patients in need of critical care.

It is equipped with oxygen and ventilators, and has sleeping quarters for medical personnel, eliminating the need for nurses, doctors and others to return home after each shift. The Nurses Hostel used to serve this purpose when the Holberton was a functioning hospital.

The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has approached the World Bank for funding the IDC. The Edward Ward of the Holberton Hospital will be refurbished in order to serve as a Dialysis and Renal Transplant Center. It should be ready for its new role by November 2020.

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8 COMMENTS

    • Maybe we can now provide residents who have a little money/good insurance more options for inpatient health care. At mount st.john they only charge a 20 dollar but you can expect around that amount of service half the time. Other times its not bad, but access to basic resources there is always (not just sometimes) a problem.
      So go ahead, turn health into an income generating industry so that we dont have to continue to grovel behind complaining pennypinching tourists.

  2. I guess the filthy state in which those Barbudans left the place will finally be dealt with. Please send the bill to Trevor Walker for settlement

    • He can more than afford to pay that bill. But then again he cuss their asses out calling them lazy, ungrateful and ungodly.

  3. Ah hah! I think I see it now. When Covid is finish, the fence between them will come down and behold the two shall become one!
    Woe unto ye! Too much transgression. The locusts will descend on the land!

  4. @janine loverty it is a wise decision to separate patients with COVID19 from patients who are ill with something else and are receiving care at the hospital.

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