A New Hospital for Punta Gorda and Toledo District

Minister of State Doctor Osmond Martinez, the Area Representative for Toledo East, highlighted the significance of the Punta Gorda Community Hospital, which is in his constituency. He briefly discussed the rollout of National Health Insurance in the district and emphasized the importance of the feasibility studies for the new hospital.

 

Dr. Osmond Martinez, Area Representative, Toledo East

“When you look at the health sector and the health system in Punta Gorda, I know we have done a lot and we must acknowledge the work that both at that time the Honorable Chebat did and what Minister Kevin Bernard has done and then with the NHI that is under the Office of the Prime Minister which the Toledo District enjoys the NHI, PM. And I must say that I’ve been walking, we’ve been in all the villages, the Mayan communities, the Garifunas, the East Indians, the Hispanic people, the Creole.  Everyone appreciates the NHI.  Everyone is grateful for what the Briceno administration has done under Plan Belize 1.0, now we’re going into Plan Belize 2.0.  But we’re so grateful for that work but, nonetheless, there’s still a lot more work that we need to do in the health system in the Toledo District and the feasibility study is more than welcomed because we need to identify the needs and, especially, just the basic health needs that are needed in the system are also important for us to provide a better service to the most vulnerable population.”

 

Ruth Calderon, CABEI

“In our strategy, we are aways focused on healthcare.  This is something that our strategic, institutional goals are, so we are really happy to be aligning with Taiwan and Belize in building these two hospitals.  This is a feasibility study that will also have a pre-design and we will have all the information and all the technical specifications for us to do a formulation of a project and soon being implementing these projects.  So this is very important for us to be able to have all the information that we need, technical and specifically for the implementation of the project.  So we will also like to tell you that we will launch the bidding process next week”