Kitty and Campbellville Health Centres to merge

Health authorities no longer believe that the Kitty Health Centre in Georgetown is conducive to good healthcare.

For this reason, the Campbellville and Kitty health centres will be merged in a brand new two-storey building to be constructed at a cost of $831M.

At an end-of-year press conference earlier this week, Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation Robbie Rambarran made the disclosure.

Speaking at the hospital’s Resource Centre on New Market Street, he said construction is expected to start in February on a piece of land that houses the post office next door to the Campbellville Health Centre.

The health centres offer numerous services including general outpatient clinics – dressings, maternal and child health clinics, pre and post-natal clinics, family planning, infant and pre-school clinics and chronic diseases clinics – diabetes and hypertension.

“The worst thing when you’re not feeling well is to go into a place that does not look well,” President Irfaan Ali had remarked at a meeting with healthcare personnel at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.