As for deploying doctors to KEMH where they serve the whole community, are you willing to say the same for the police and their under-utilized police stations in St. G and Somerset? Perhaps we should just have them centrally in Hamilton so they can serve the community as a whole.

I can’t even give you a like as it appears the gremlins are at it again. That or I’ve used up my quota of likes/dislikes for the next week… about 10/12 I think. Click on either one now and just dots appear, it usually takes a week or more before it allows me to like/dislike again.

What’s with that Bernews?

Basically we should pay for another facility because despite the fact that you live next door to the hospital, the wait is too long for you?

Wow.

Yawn!! and no it shouldn’t stay open, it needs to be closed. It’s a glorified band aid centre that we cannot afford. If the Govt allows someone else to run a business there and we get a reasonable rent then great. If the building gets sold off at market cost or near enough that’s fine too. It should never have been built!

This facility is co-named after my great Granny, my entire extended family lives in St Davids as does my mother (a senior) and my older brother and with all that even I cannot support it staying open.

Bingo!

Exactly!

Number two, if I buy an old car with a broken down engine and put a new coat of paint on it will the engine suddenly start to run as if it was grand new again? Answer: no. Let take that same analogy and apply it to your comment above regard what you say is the new hospital. If you said that KEMH emergency dept wasn’t run properly at it’s old location then what makes you think it will become this well oiled perfectly running operation now that it has been moved to a new location? The management remains the same. #justsaying

The Lamb-Foggo/UCC not be able to help you if you have a bad accident but they can take some of the load off of the KEMH emergency department so that if, God forbid, you are in that bad accident you talk about then you will have a bed/bay to be seen by the emergency Dr and you won’t have to wait 4 or more hours because the KEMH emergency department is overloaded and back logged with less urgent accidents and emergencies. Common sense.

Point number two is that the UCC does not only benefit the people of the East End, it is there for all residents of Bermuda. I am lucky enough to live on Berry Hill Road nearly opposite the hospital, I have had 4 sports injuries which have required emergency treatment in the last year and guess what, I have driven to the UCC every single time as I have found that facility to be much quicker in dealing with my injury rather than waiting at KEMH. Granted I have always checked the waiting time at KEMH before I drive to the UCC.

And before we turn this into race, I am black. I am bermudian. And I also believe that both political parties are as bad as each other.

If a couple of hundred people want a health care facility on their doorstep, they should pay for it.

If not, they should just use kemh like the rest of us.

As stated above, these were not life threatening situations to the passengers. And you mean to tell me that all those vehicles in the picture above came from Lamb-Foggo? Who wants to bet some of those came from KEMH and central? By the time those planes landed, those vehicles and support personnel were there. Even if these were life threatening situations, the passengers would STILL have to go KEMH.

Ms. Ming, I’m sorry but you’re just playing politics again.

And if I have a bad accident, Lambe Foggo can’t help anyway.

If a couple of hundred people want a health facility on their doorstep, they should be the ones to pay for it.

If not, go to KEMH like everyone else.

It’s costing the whole country a chunk of change and only operational for part of the day.

Sorry, but I am not a die-hard either. Unlike the PLP the OBA is not a lost cause. They are only just getting into their stride & should be around for a long time.

You’ve been so misled that ou actually think the UCC can perform the same tasks as the hospital ER. That’s how propaganda works though now isn’t it?

It does not treat life threatening injuries and never has since day one.

But keep on keeping on my friend.

Oh and BTW the PLP promised a west end UCC in the last election. So it is an exams of yet another broken PLP promise or the fact that once they discovered the east end UCC was a drag on finances they made the decision to break their promise for financial reasons. Choose one.

I suspect simply that BHB simply doesn’t have the funds to sustain multiple outposts for healthcare at this time, and unless a model where a wealthy donor is willing to provide funding for said clinics, it’s going to be difficult.

LOL health care here is a joke for anyone who dissagrees I know people who have missing body parts due to the doctors treatment of things they are not qualified to treat. I also know more people who went away for a second opinion only to be told that whoever told them that a body part had to be removed was unnessesary and often an out dated treatment option. So forgive me if I do not let doctors here treat anything other than what they are trained to do.

to help keep cost down why not convert it(lamb) into a teaching hospital! it is very probable some med schools would love to have a chance to have a practice here ! just a thought!

money!!!! A one dollar tax could be added to all incoming passengers local and foreign when enterin bda to help cover cost for both locations ! if you have money to travel i do not believe one dollar per time will make much if any difference!it is up to us all to be best prepared for our well being!!

Let’s hope this new Hospital sorts that out.