-by Kyler Rollins

The Bath Regional Hospital has marked one year since it was commissioned alongside five other new regional hospitals across the country. Since opening its doors in 2025, the facility has treated more than 60,000 patients and performed over 300 surgeries, providing residents with medical services and treatments that were previously unavailable in Region 5. 

Speaking exclusively with NCN News, Medical Superintendent Dr. Daniel Robertson said that of the more than 60,000 patients treated during the hospital’s first year, approximately 2,000 were admitted for further care. 

He noted that more than 4,000 ultrasounds and 15,000 x-rays were performed, along with approximately 1,000 CT scans, a service that was previously unavailable in Region 5. 

Dr. Robertson said residents have been making full use of the expanded services, which have helped to ease the burden on patients who previously had to travel outside the region to access specialized diagnostic and medical care.

“Being a Level 4 facility, which we now have new services and equipment such as the CT scans, which was again previously not available in Region 5, where the residents would have to travel to either New Amsterdam or to Georgetown, it has reduced greatly the financial burden that these families would face, along with the consumption of time that they would need to travel to these other districts to access this level of care,” he explained.  

Turning his attention to surgeries, Dr. Robertson said that the hospital performed more than 300 procedures of various types, including caesarean sections, gallstone and bladder removal, nephrectomies and Whipple procedures. He described the achievement as a significant milestone for the region’s health sector, noting that these are among the services newly introduced at the facility.

“I feel that it’s a great accomplishment through the efforts of a multidisciplinary approach because everyone played a part in getting the surgeries done, and I can say that with the support of the Ministry of Health and the RDC, it has been wonderful,” he said.

As the hospital appears to expand its services over the next year, plans are in the pipelines to introduce dialysis and other key medical services that were previously unavailable in Region 5.