Extensive repair works are underway on the All Saints Clinic, which serves one of the most densely populated areas of the country.
Health Minister, Sir Molwyn Joseph, confirmed that the clinic was closed back in 2023 and its services transferred to the Polyclinic at Glanville’s with shuttle bus services being offered freely to patients to transport them to and from the clinic.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Sir Molwyn explained that the delay in having the clinic reopened in a timely manner had to do with the extensive repairs that were needed to be done to the structure which required detailed assessment by the engineers.
The ministry reported that the delay in completing the All Saints Clinic was also related to the closure of the clinic at Browne’s Avenue. That required upgrades to the IDC Unit at the Old Holberton Hospital where the Browne’s Avenue Clinic will operate from on a temporary basis.
With that completed, the Minister announced that the contractor is on site at both clinics which are undergoing extensive repairs and upgrades simultaneously. Additionally, Sir Molwyn said he is using this opportunity to expand the structure at All Saints to enable the expansion of the services to a full polyclinic offering additional services to what it offered prior to its closure.
Prior to its closure, the All Saints Clinic offered; antenatal clinic, postnatal clinic, neonatal assessment and follow-up, child health clinic from zero to five years old, wound care clinic, pap smears, hypertensive and diabetic clinic, psychiatric clinic, medical clinic, physician’s clinic twice per week, glandular but daily at Villa, nutritionist clinic, and dental clinic.
The health minister revealed the additional services that the All Saints Clinic will offer, “We will also add eye-care clinic, ophthalmologist twice per month for full consultation. Specialist clinic; nephrology, internal medicine, gynecology, and urology. That service will be available on a monthly basis and daily paediatrics. We’ll also have in those expanded clinics daily laboratory services. CBC, chemistry panels, kidney function markers, you know kidney function tests.
Lipid profile, glucose, and urinalysis. Now we also have daily radiology services, ultrasound, x-ray to include chest and lymph. Daily EKG services as well as a pharmacy.”
