PM Briceño Focuses on Health in 2024 Budget Speech

The prime minister only focused on two primary areas, including health, during this morning’s budget presentation.  PM Briceño also spoke about the recent breaking of ground for the construction of the San Pedro General Hospital.  He also spoke about CABEI’s involvement in funding assessments of existing health facilities across the country.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“Now turning to my favorite minister, the Minister of Health.  Turning now to health and wellness, among the highest core priorities of this administration is the provision of health and wellness care and services.  Based on this conviction, so many massive investments are being made across the public healthcare system.  These investments include, for example, CABEI’s funding of a modernization assessment of hospitals in Punta Gorda, Orange Walk Town and Belize City.  This needs assessment will be followed by project financing to implement the modernization projects.  Only last week, accompanied by the area representative and our mayor of San Pedro, we broke ground for the new hospital in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye.  How many times we mi vote da money in the National Assembly?  The former Deputy Prime Minister could remind me.  We bring dis bout three times eena di budget, that we were going to build, but it was never built.  But this government, through the cooperative bill with Taiwan, government will invest thirty-three point four million dollars in a first-class, fully equipped hospital.  As the saying goes, dehn talk, we work.  Dehn promise, we deliver.”