The date of completion of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) maternity ward has been postponed to later this year.
According to a GINA press release, Chief Medical Officer, Shamdeo Persaud expects that the unit will be opened to the general public before the third quarter of this year. “The construction … has been ongoing and I think its closing to the end, hopefully before the next quarter we should be able to formally open that unit,” he said.
According to Public Health Minister, George Norton, the delay in the completion of the unit is due to a breach of contract by the contractors and the ministry is considering legal action, the release stated.
“I have a document where the contractors are justifying the non-completion of the building because they are saying to us that they had to stretch their resources to complete other projects and as a result have neglected this wing that they are doing. I don’t think that they are in the right path.
I said it before, if not legal action, at least some form of sanctions should be imposed on them,” Norton explained.
