A major new investment project is to get underway at Kent, Christ Church in the form a state-of-the-art ‘Boutique’ Medical Campus that is expected to create hundreds of jobs.
A news release on behalf of the developers says it will provide surgical and diagnostic care for local, regional and international patients.
The company behind the venture, Universal Medical Advance Center Incorporated, UMAC, has earmarked 13-acres of land adjacent east of the Wildey Gymnasium as the proposed site for the new facility.
UMAC says the planned medical campus will consist of an ultra-modern surgical hospital offering general, plastic and specialized surgeries as well as cardiology and urology procedures.
Other key features of the facility will be a medical office housing an Imaging Centre for MRIs, X-Rays, Mammography, Radiation therapy and the like; a Diagnostic and Laboratory Services/Pathology Department and a Brain and Rehab Centre for Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy.
It will also be home to a Diabetic Centre and offer a range of other high-level medical services.
The developers explained that the advanced campus will be internationally accredited and certified to ensure the highest healthcare standards are maintained.
They added that the planned facility will not only offer significantly improved medical services for Barbadians, but is also expected to create over 400 jobs and raise the island’s medical care profile in the expanding ‘health tourism’ market.
