{"id":24568,"date":"2024-12-05T12:39:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=24568"},"modified":"2024-12-05T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:39:13","slug":"president-ali-urges-acceleration-of-maternal-and-pediatric-hospital-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-ali-urges-acceleration-of-maternal-and-pediatric-hospital-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ali Urges Acceleration of Maternal and Pediatric Hospital Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>By Saskia Warrick | November 5, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has called on contractors to expedite the construction of Guyana&#8217;s first maternal and pediatric hospital, located in Ogle, East Coast Demerara. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a site visit on Monday, the President expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of the project and warned contractors that failure to meet deadlines could result in liquidity damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 256-bed Level Five hospital spans 24,000 square meters and will feature state-of-the-art facilities, including a specialized imaging suite with CT, X-ray, and MRI capabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony highlighted additional services such as 24-hour accident and emergency care and advanced operating theatres, including one dedicated to cardiac surgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali stressed the importance of ramping up workforce efforts and conducting simultaneous construction activities to meet the critical project deadlines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The structural frame is nearing completion; however, the contractor&#8217;s projection of completing internal works by October next year was deemed unacceptable by the Head of State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Anthony also revealed that training programs for hospital staff are already underway, preparing personnel to provide comprehensive pediatric and maternal care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is the first initiative resulting from a 2018 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Guyana and Austria, with funding facilitated by the UK Export Credit Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick | November 5, 2024 President Dr. Irfaan Ali has called on contractors to expedite the construction of Guyana&#8217;s first maternal and pediatric hospital, located in Ogle, East&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24569,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24568\/revisions\/24569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}