After years of analysis for the enhancement of lives for residents of Swan Village along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, a new health centre to the tune of $45 million was recently commissioned.
The health centre is equipped with medical supplies and equipment and is staffed with adequate human resources to provide primary healthcare services to the residents.
Speaking at the event Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony explained that this was an initiative that began some years ago after it was realised that the community was growing in population.
“We are very pleased that we can now officially open this health centre that we built. This was something that we wanted to do because we recognised that we had a relatively new community, and we had other people living here. If you have to access healthcare, it is going to be difficult for you to go to the neighbouring health centre.”
He also related that the residents deserve to benefit from the rapid transformation of the country.
“With where you are going and the population that you have, you deserve to have your own health facility here. You would have seen steady progress over the last couple of years, so since the PPP Government has come back to office, one of the things that we have been doing is working to see how we can improve the lives of our community.”
“This community is now like a strip of progress. From the time you drive in here and look at this side, you can see all of the government buildings, which span across the community centre, a new school, and a new addition, which is this health facility. That shows that there is proper planning and that we are working to improve the lives of people living in the community. In almost all villages across the country, we have been working to improve health facilities because we recognised that this is really important.”
