The removal of patients from the main building at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James the completion of the exercise has been extended.
The exercise was slated to end yesterday evening with surgical patients being transferred to a new 35-bed facility at the Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny.
However, Clinical Coordinator at Cornwall Regional, Dr Delroy Fray, is now projecting the removal to end today.
“Well I would say the removal has been progressing smoothly and as you can imagine, to remove patients takes sometime. We are about 50 per cent movement … you can imagine how tedious it is, because we have to remove the patients via ambulance.
He said the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) helps in moving the beds and placing them in the ambulance.
Fray also said that the Dialysis Unit and the Radiotherapy Department at the main building at Cornwall Regional will continue to operate there.
Meanwhile, the Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ) says an assessment is to be carried out of members affected by noxious fumes at the Cornwall Regional Hospital.
It's one of the outcomes of a meeting yesterday with health minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton.
The NAJ emerged from the meeting expressing satisfaction about the talks.
And President of the NAJ, Carmen Johnson, says the Association is particularly pleased about plans for the assessment of staff.
“The other area that we are happy about is the continuation of the staff clinic and also to do an assessment to see what had gone wrong . He (Tufton) says that he will be partnering with PAHO (Pan American Health Organisation) to see how they do that assessment and how they plan move forward with the whole clinical outcome for our staff,” Johnson noted.
She also said a commitment has also been given for monthly talks with the Ministry.
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