New diagnostic centre ready in six months
11.12.2009
The new diagnostic centre at Victoria hospital is expected to be ready in six months, chief medical officer Kenneth Henriette said yesterday.
Speaking as workers knocked down the former X-ray unit where the centre will be built, Dr Henriette said X-ray patients are being seen at a former theatre where endoscopy was carried out.
“The security guards have been instructed to guide patients here, and there are signs all along showing how to get here,” he said at the temporary X-ray unit, which is immediately behind the casualty unit.
“The endoscopy unit has been moved upstairs, and the temporary facility is big enough. One of the X-ray machines is based at the casualty; we have three of them and an ultra-sound machine here,” Dr Henriette said, adding that the CT-scan machine has not been moved.
“Only emergency X-rays were being taken at the temporary unit before, but now the routine X-ray services are being given here as well.”
Dr Henriette said the new unit will be larger than the former one, which was very old and congested.
The new centre is a gift to Seychelles announced earlier this year by the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, when he met President James Michel at his official residence here.
