M&CC, MoPH collaborating to improve Festival City Health Centre

Junior Health Minister, Dr Karen Cummings, along with a team from the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown, visited the Festival City Health Centre and made the commitment to collaborate with the municipality to improve the conditions at various medical facilities in the city.
District Health Officer, Dr Danelle Drepaul, Chief Health Visitor (Georgetown) Medex Beres Springer, along with city and public health engineers and other representatives of the M&CC in Georgetown accompanied Minister Cummings on the visit.

The Minister initially remarked that the Ministry would be collaborating with the M&CC to strategically plan and roll out upgrades to the facility. She met with Town Clerk, Royston King, who has expressed an interest in contributing to a better health care delivery system to the citizens of Georgetown.
“We would like it (Festival City Health Centre) to come on par with some of our facilities that we have at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), so we are prepared to partner with the City Council to ensure that we deliver quality care to the residents of South Georgetown,” she said.
“Starting from outside, as you know this place floods very easily when it rains. So, we are working; we have two engineers (one from the M&CC and one from the MoPH). They will work together with the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (to) see how we can improve the situation so we don’t have flooding, so the mothers don’t have to skip and jump when they are coming to the clinic and also we are going to cater for the disabled,” Minister Cummings added while addressing the issue of flooding at the facility.
She said there might be plans to extend the clinic, in order to house more staff and equipment and offer extensive services to residents in that area.
The health centre currently offers maternal and child health services, which includes prenatal, antenatal and postnatal care along with family planning, counselling and testing services from Tuesdays to Thursdays. Services for chronic disease patients are also facilitated on Mondays and Fridays.
Minister Cummings a few weeks ago was forced to visit the La Parfaite Harmonie Health Centre after the issue of unsanitary conditions coupled with poor infrastructure was raised. However, a few hours before the Minister’s visit, the regional administration conducted emergency works at the facility.