From left: CEO of QEH Dr. Dexter James, Minister of Health John Boyce and Chairman of the QEH Board of Management Joseph King greet one another during the conference.
If Minister of Health John Boyce has his way, next year’s successful medical interns will be offered positions at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Saying it was regrettable that a number of these interns could not be added to the roster of the island’s main medical institution, he insisted that this must be addressed.
“I continue to regret the fact that from year to year we leave out some persons who have been successful obtaining their MD program, because we do not have the spaces immediately available to put them in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital program. It is not only the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in terms of allocation, but also in terms of finance and payment by the Ministry of Education and Health. I believe that there are workouts that can be achieved in this regard,” he said, noting that this would be a priority area moving towards the new September academic year.
Delivering the feature address at the QEH’s Presentation of its 2017/2018 Business Plan at the Hilton Barbados yesterday, he commended the medical facility on its attempts to improve its operational capacity.
Noting that there were some critics who continued to say that there had been no change, he pointed its many successes in receiving international accredi-tation throughout various departments.
Boyce also recommended that attention be now given to the Engineering Department.
“Let us now pay some attention on accrediting our Engineering Department. I paid an in-depth visit to the department last Friday, though satisfied generally with the operation there and the tremendous improve-ments that have been taking place, I think we just have to make that little extra effort to make sure that this Engineering Department too, like our Kitchen becomes the end of any private sector institution in Barbados,” he stated. (JMB)