HCCI to begin clearing new hospital site

| 03/06/2021 | 12 Comments
Future location of Health City Camana Bay (Picture from dart.ky)

(CNS): Health City Cayman Islands has been given permission to begin clearing the site of a proposed new hospital between Camana Bay and the landfill, even though no planning application has yet been made for the project itself. Hospital officials appeared before the Central Planning Authority to explain why they wanted to clear 3.441 acres of vegetation, including mangroves, at this stage before an application is made. Following their submissions that they need to clear the site in order to work on the designs and after submitting drafts of what will be an application, the CPA has given the green light to the hospital.

In a press release issued Wednesday, the company said the work will begin at the site on 22 June, as they are currently working with their design team on the new hospital plans, which will be submitted in the near future. The $100 million medical campus will be located to the south of Cayman International School, at the intersection of the Esterley Tibbetts Highway and the new Airport Connector Road.

“Our plans for the new facility are progressing and we look forward to helping close healthcare accessibility gaps, and providing robust healthcare security, to radically improve medical outcomes for the people of the Cayman Islands,” said Shomari Scott, Chief Business Officer.

It will become the first hospital in the region to offer bone marrow transplantation and CAR T-cell therapy. The advanced oncology department will include medical oncology, hemato-oncology, surgical oncology and radiation oncology with a medical linear accelerator (LINAC). Dr Binoy Chattuparambil, Clinical Director and Senior Cardiac Surgeon at Health City Cayman Islands, said the hospital’s radiotherapy services would be available within nine months of the ground-breaking with the completion of the rest of the facility and a full suite of services following a few months later.

“We estimate the full 70,000 square foot expansion to take 12 to 18 months to complete,” he said. “The hospital will include a specialised neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a service that will be of great benefit to Cayman and the wider Caribbean. Having a premature baby or a baby that requires care in a NICU is very difficult for families. If their home is far from that NICU, the challenges of separation and travel begin at birth. The cost of travel and time away from work for parents is especially burdensome and is really the last thing parents in an already difficult situation need to be worrying about,” he added.


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  1. Anonymous says:

    Sorry, is this HCCI the MEDICAL TOURISM hospital that promised not to interfere with the scope of practice of properly registered medical specialists on the island? What, no mention of medical tourism at the Camana Bay Clinic, Mr. Scott?

  2. Anonymous says:

    Will be open before the borders, might come in handy.

  3. Doctor Quickmoney. says:

    My question: Do we REALLY need a new hospital? My answer: NO!

    • Anonymous says:

      I also feel that we DO NOT need another hospital. What we need to do is put a stop to this madness of accommodating these people. We need to put a stop on this madness of work permits and status.
      And….. I know for sure if we do not stop draining the swamps and cutting and clearing out the wetlands we are going to regret this and will be unable to reverse this damage.
      Anyone notice the rain cloud that comes across the North Sound just about everyday 🙏. Well guess what if we keep up this shit it will soon be GONE!!!!!

  4. Anonymous says:

    With the amount of toxic shit that the dump has those patients might end up with sick with other things

  5. Anonymous says:

    Right next to the dump??? 🤢🤮

  6. Anonymous says:

    Ummmm??? Panton is meant to be an environmental guy. Why would one clear land way before building? I guess it’s because of all the treatments we will need living by the dump. Especially those of marble dr.

    • Anonymous says:

      Until we get rid of Al’T and that bunch at CPA everything will get approved. It’s a gravy train for them

      Did anyone that for the first time in a long time they turned down two projects simply becuase it was after election and they were worried the PACT government would kick their asses to the curb.

      Now Jay or whomever is in charge needs to pull the plug on this group, better get on it right away, because they are right back to the same old “rubber stamping” that they are well known for..

    • Anonymous says:

      Come on it is Mr Dart so you know that it will be passed with flying colors!

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