A new state-of-the-art boutique medical campus that will provide surgical and diagnostic care for local, regional and international patients, is slated for Barbados.
Developers Universal Medical Advance Center Inc., (UMAC) have identified 13 acres of land at Kent, Christ Church, east of the Wildey Gymnasium, as the proposed site for the new facility.
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The campus will not only create more than 400 jobs and raise the island’s medical care profile in the expanding health tourism market, it will also offer significantly improved medical services for Barbadians.
According to a press release, the planned medical campus will consist of an ultramodern surgical hospital offering general, plastic and specialised surgeries as well as cardiology and urology procedures. Other key features of the facility will be a medical office housing an Imaging Centre for MRIs, X-Rays, Mammography, and Radiation Therapy; a Diagnostic and Laboratory Services/Pathology Department; and a Brain and Rehab Centre for Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy.
The developers explained that the advanced campus, which will be Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited and certified to ensure the highest healthcare standards are maintained, will also be home to a Diabetic Centre, a pharmacy, multi-speciality clinics and an Infusion Centre for chemotherapy, rheumatology/arthritis, antibiotics/HIV, neurology and iron/haematological/blood infusions.
