Sickkids Partnering with Barbados to Create Centre the GOVERNMENT of Barbados Is the Centre Which Will Be Known As the Court
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Established October 1895 Work to start soon on expanded A&E Department Page 3 Tuesday February 11, 2020 $1 VAT Inclusive ON THE RISE Non-medical prescription drug use a growing problem NON-MEDICAL use of prescription pointed out that non-medical use of has reported problematic use of opioids drugs is growing in Barbados and the prescription drugs such as opioids has and amphetamines in 2017, ecstasy and Regional Security System (RSS) is reached epidemic proportions in various crystal meth in 2018 and also crystal putting measures in place to help parts of the world. meth, ecstasy, xanax and hasheesh in reverse the trend. He said the Caribbean has not remained 2019,” he said. Addressing yesterday’s opening untouched by this scourge, while citing Shurland noted new psychoactive ceremony of the RSS Drug Investigations the growing use of Zesser pills in Trinidad substances (NPS) and emerging drugs for Female Officers Course, Executive and Tobago. These pills, which are were presenting a number of challenges Director of the RSS Headquarters Captain designed to look like sweets, combine a for persons working in the area of demand Errington Shurland said the range of mixture of ecstasy and cocaine. and supply reduction. Executive Director of the RSS drugs and drug markets were growing “Similar challenges exist in Barbados. Headquarters Captain Errington and diversifying like never before and The Barbados Drug Information Network RISE on Page 3 Shurland From left: High Commissioner of Canada to Barbados, Marie Legault; Chair of LesLois Shaw Foundation, Virginia Shaw Hutchinson; Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and Executive Chair of the QEH, Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland engage in conversation after the launch. SickKids partnering with Barbados to create centre THE GOVERNMENT of Barbados is The Centre which will be known as the Court. physicians are to be trained in targeted, partnering with the Hospital for Sick Shaw Centre for Paediatric Excellence is Speaking yesterday morning during the high-need paediatric subspecialties Children (SickKids) in Toronto to establish being made possible through the support event, Director of Capacity Building, through fellowships at the Hospital for a Centre of Paediatric Excellence at the of the LesLois Shaw Foundation in Centre for Global Child Health, SickKids Sick Children and support will also be Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), which is collaboration with the Clinton Foundation. Canada, Brian Smith said through the offered for six international observerships expected to see a greater number of Word of the centre,which is to be of benefit Centre they will develop a specialist in quality improvement that will twin paediatric health care personnel being not only to Barbados, but the countries of nursing programme through which 40 their experience at the Hospital for Sick trained and fewer children here having to the Eastern Caribbean, came yesterday in paediatric nurses will be trained to help Children with health care settings in seek treatment overseas for various a ceremony held on the grounds of the support the QEH and the various Barbados. conditions. Prime Minister’s official residence, Ilaro polyclinics. Additionally, he said, four PARTNERSHIP on Page 5 2 • Tuesday February 11, 2020 The Barbados Advocate The Barbados Advocate Tuesday February 11, 2020 • 3 Work to start soon on More funds for QEH GOVERNMENT is set to noting that her make even more money government recognises available to the Queen that they “have a expanded A&E Department Elizabeth Hospital responsibility even in CONSTRUCTION on (QEH) to help improve difficult fiscal times to an expanded Accident the delivery of health step up to the plate”. and Emergency (A&E) care in this country. In that vein, she said Department at the Word of this has come Government ensured Queen Elizabeth from Prime Minister Mia that the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is Amor Mottley. She made Hospital was the expected to get started the comments yesterday recipient of a $30 million soon on a site next morning while loan to be able to re-equip to the current addressing those critical aspects of the department. gathered at Ilaro Court hospital’s equipment and T hat’s according to for the launch of a infrastructure. She said Executive Chairman of partnership between that the last such the QEH, Juliette Bynoe- Government and the occasion this was done Sutherland. She was Toronto-based Hospital was a decade or more ago. speaking yesterday for Sick Children “All of us would agree afternoon to the media on (SickKids) to establish that in the area of health the sidelines of the launch the Shaw Centre for care where technology of a partnership between Paediatric Excellence. evolves in the wink of an Government and the The centre is being eye and where the Toronto-based Hospital for funded by the LesLois benefits from such Sick Children (SickKids) Shaw Foundation in technology makes the at Ilaro Court to establish collaboration with the difference between life the Shaw Centre for Clinton Foundation. and death that we ought Paediatric Excellence. Mottley told those never to be in a similar She said after exploring gathered that this latest situation where 10 years several options for the funding of $3 million will elapses again before we build out of that made available to finance look at the equipment department, including the a special project to reduce needs of our primary nearby Enmore Complex the mortality rate of health care institution. as well as within the myocardial infraction So we therefore hope that hospital itself, it was commonly known as a we are not only giving decided that they build heart attack. According them the opportunity to next to the department. to PM Mottley, in re-equip, but that we “As we speak now we are Barbados and the would be setting a really building back up the Caribbean the mortality different standard as to project team. You are Executive Chairman of the QEH, Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland. rate is at 37 per cent, how we treat to the going to soon see work while in the developed hospital’s needs on an starting and we are going and not disrupt the “It is important to note As such, she said it is world it is at eight per ongoing basis,” the Prime to give you a date officially operations and as you that building out or imperative that the cent. Minister added. for the groundbreaking of move out and start up, you strengthening the existing hospital strengthen its “This is an She continued, “I say so the new A&E. We would can do some retrofitting of capacity of the A&E is not discharge planning, unacceptable figure and conscious as well that we have done a lot of the the existing A&E. So all of the only thing that is increase the bed capacity we have therefore have already given them, preliminary work already the other options that we needed to improve the and do a better job in the determined that in and I hope the hospital and we decided that we looked at within the delivery of accident and area of ambulatory care. addition to us taking a will start very shortly, would settle on the facility just were not the emergency services. Very “There are a number of presentation at the start the expansion of the original site for expansion, best fit,” she stated. often blockages are procedures that are now CARICOM Heads of Accident and Emergency which is next door to the Bynoe-Sutherland said encountered within the increasingly able to be Government meeting Department which the existing A&E and it will that some $11 million hospital. When you hear done as a same day next week, from the government has already call for some have already been sometimes people are procedure – so you can leading cardiologist in given them $10 million reconfiguration of driving allocated within the waiting a long time for a come into the hospital the region, that the as well”. and parking,” she told budget to execute this bed, it is because they are have a same day government of Barbados Meanwhile, turning media personnel. project and she said that waiting essentially to get procedure and then be will proceed to being able her attention to the new She explained that by persons can expect that into beds on wards in the discharged. So if we can to make the difference by Centre of Excellence building on that site as with the expanded facility hospital and we have been get ambulatory care the expenditures that are being created, she opposed to expanding the will come additional staff impacted by a number of services more deeply necessary from thanked SickKids, the current department, will to get the job done. Noting variables,” she added. established and instituted ambulances right back to LesLois Shaw allow the department to that healthcare is a very The QEH head into the hospital, it would adjustments within the Foundation and the continue to operate and human resource-intensive explained that such go a long way towards Accident and Emergency others involved for cater to the needs of the area, she said part of the variables include the large reducing the number of Department that would helping to make it a public. planning for this population of elderly for persons who are required allow us to be able reality. She expressed “That’s why it was expansion of the A&E has care who remain at the to stay within the hospital. to deal with patients gratitude for them being considered the best option, looked at increasing staff, hospital long after their That would help facing these difficulties catalysts to make a because you can encase bed capacity and the acute condition has been significantly with within the shortest meaningful difference in the location and do the services that are delivered addressed, and limited bed improving the delivery of possible period of time, the lives of people.