Health City breaks ground on new $100M hospital

| 27/01/2022 | 97 Comments

(CNS): Government officials and Dart executives were out in force Thursday morning for the official ‘golden shovel’ moment when Health City Cayman Islands, the hospital founded by world-renowned Indian heart surgeon, Devi Shetty, broke ground on a new facility south of Camana Bay. The new 70,000 sqft state-of-the-art hospital will be built on three acres of land.

It will be kicked off with the radiology unit, which is being constructed by Arch & Godfrey. The whole facility will cost around US$100 million and will provide several medical specialties not currently available here, including neonatal intensive care.

It will also feature a cancer care centre with advanced oncology as well as an emergency pavilion and a multi-specialty programme that includes robotic surgery.

Dr Shetty was not at the event but sent a video message to the celebrations, where he spoke about creating an advanced facility for cancer care, heart care, neonatal care and organ transplant for the entire Caribbean region.

“Our goal is to solidify the Cayman Islands as the best medical destination in the entire Western Hemisphere,” he said, reminding everyone that while the hospital is still dependent on local patients, it was established originally as a medical tourism facility.

The project is expected to take up to 18 months to complete but radiotherapy services will be available within nine months of the groundbreaking, officials said. Once it is complete, the hospital will be offering some exclusive and very specialised services.

“We will be the first in the region to offer bone marrow transplantation and CAR-T Cell therapy,” said HCCI Clinical Director Dr Binoy Chattuparambil. “Our technology and services will mean we can provide effective, precise and less invasive cancer treatments.”

The hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit will be the only of its kind in the Caribbean, where NICU specialists will work closely with other specialists, who will all be available to consult on-site as well as with the high-quality unit at the Health Services Authority (HSA) to ensure no patient requiring neonatal care will be forced to go overseas to get this specialist treatment.

“Neonatal care is a team effort and requires all specialties working together and caring for patients,” Dr Chattuparambil said, as he explained the benefits for families here. “This holistic approach will put us in the fortunate position of being able to deliver the best potential outcomes for the highest-risk newborns.

“For Cayman and Caribbean families this often means parents and babies are separated because one is in the US caring for a baby while the other is at home working and looking after the rest of the family. Our specialised NICU will mean babies and families can stay together, at home, and focus on what is most important – positive outcomes for these newborns.”

Health City said all existing major gaps in medical care will be covered by the new hospital.

“I appreciate the services to the healthcare system that this new hospital will offer,” Health Minister Sabrina Turner said in a press release about the new hospital. “It is envisaged that this new facility will help to further enhance our medical offerings and will be an asset to this and future generations of Caymanians, residents and visitors.”

Jackie Doak, representing the Dart Group, which has leased the land to Health City, welcomed the start of the project. While the hospital will be of significant benefit to local residents for obvious health care reasons, it will also be of great benefit to the islands’ wealthiest developer’s town, Camana Bay, and an anchor establishment for the new airport connector road expected to open next year. This will no doubt help to attract more tenants to Dart’s ever-expanding local empire.

Doak described it as “another chapter in Camana Bay’s story”.

The decision to locate the hospital close to Camana Bay was deliberate because, despite the success of the East End facility, the location has hindered further development of what was meant to be a much bigger project. HCCI Chief Business Officer Shomari Scott, who acted as MC for the groundbreaking event, said the new hospital is close to where most people live and work.

See the event live-streamed on the HCCI Facebook page.


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  1. Anonymous says:

    🤔 🤨I am baffled that people, in Cayman have zero concern about radiation ☠️ safety and absence of Laws and Regulation, while cancer rates are growing. The Auditor General report in the provided link includes cancer statistics in Cayman and it doesn’t look good.

  2. Anonymous says:

    ❓Question to the Governor:

    Why building a hospital that will generate enormous amount of liquid, gaseous and other radioactive and biomedical waste was given a green light in the absence of radioactive and biomedical hazardous waste management regulations?

    I believe such matters fall under his jurisdiction for local government has no expertise and capabilities or even understands that having radioactive ☢️ material in medical facilities requires regulations, control, monitoring, inspection and enforcement.

    The Governor must know there are international safety standards for Radioactive Waste Disposal issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

    Why there were never a radioactive safety inspection in the Cayman Islands?

    All medical facilities offering x-rays, CAT scans, PET scans use radioactive material which they muster dispose in accordance with International standards.

    New Cancer Treatment Facility will have a radiology unit- the volume of radioactive waste will increase exponentially. Hospital personnel and visitors will have risk of exposure if safety measures not followed.

    Why there’s no oversight from the Governor and the UK relevant agencies in the UK? Every single resident in the Cayman Islands could be potentially exposed to radiation without ever knowing that.

    Lastly, what is going to happen to the Health City patients when the Dump catches fire again? This question is to the Governor, not CIG, for the latter not just incompetent to answer, they never even thought about such a scenario.

    • Anonymous says:

      From gov.ky site…

      “The Governor is Her Majesty The Queen’s representative in the Cayman Islands and acts as the de facto Head of State but he also has key reserved areas of responsibility which contribute to the overall safety and wellbeing of the Cayman Islands. These reserved areas are defence, external affairs, internal security (including the Police and Regiment) and good governance. He also appoints the head of government and other senior officials to public office.”

      ❗️The overall safety and wellbeing of the Cayman Islands

      ✔️Responsibility for radiation protection
      Some measure of responsibility for radiation protection is held at all levels of the hospital, from the employing authority to the workers carrying out radiological procedures.
      The authority in charge of the establishment is ultimately responsible for the protection of all staff, patients, and members of the public who may come within range of any radiation from its X-ray equipment. Therefore hospital administratorswould be well advised to establish a radiation safety committee, which would in turn designate a radiation protection officer to supervise the safety of all radiation areas.*

      ❓Has the hospital administration established a radiation safety committee, designated a radiation protection officer? The must have done that, for they already provide radiology services already. If so, what members of the committee and the officer qualifications and credentials? Who is the decision maker in hiring qualified and certified professionals?

      ✔️“In areas where the radiation dosage is likely to exceed three-tenths of themaximumpermissibledose,specialcontrolshouldbeexercised. Thiswill include regular personnel monitoring (e.g., using film badges), periodic radiation surveys, and health surveillance of radiation staff by a medical officer with a knowledge of radiation reaction.”*

      ❓Were such areas identified and how special controls will be exercised once the hospital is ready to operate?

      ✔️“ Expert advisory services on radiation protection problems should be provided by a team consisting of a radiologist experienced in radiation protection, a medical physicist (or a physicist from a national radiation protection service), and a radiological engineer”*

      ❓Where a medical physicist to provide advisory services will come from? CIG doesn’t have one. I assume HC can’t hire such an advisor, for it must be independent from HC.

      The above 3 excerpts ( randomly taken from the WHO manual*see the link below) and demonstrate the importance and complexity of the radiation protection, safety and disposal.

      ❓Who is overseeing this area now and will continue after HC new hospital is built? Because I believe the hospital cant start its operation until it is accepted by the independent radiation safety experts who can only come from the UK, therefore it is the Cayman Governor responsibility for it falls under❗️“The overall safety and wellbeing of the Cayman Islands”.

      * https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/39920/9241540400_eng.pdf;sequence=1

      • Anonymous says:

        Cayman doesn’t appear to have radiation regulations and Laws

        meantime in Bermuda…

        BERMUDA 1972 : 17 RADIATION ACT 1972 https://www.gov.bm/sites/default/files/radiation-act-1972.pdf

        Further supported by “Guidelines for radioactive equipment.”
        Which include links to:
        Application for Radiation Protection 
        Dentist Radiation Safety Guidelines 
        Diagnostic Imaging Safety 
        Vets Radiation Safety Guidelines 
        Radiation Licence Application Form 
        Radiation Licence Conditions
        https://www.gov.bm/guidelines-radioactive-equipment

        The booklet is about x-rays and the gamma rays from radioactive materials was recently published:
        “RADIATION HEALTH 11 February 2020”
        https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/MONOGRAPH/109366/135657/F665596294/GBR109366%20BMU_Radiation%20Safety%20Handbook_2001.pdf

      • Anonymous says:

        Office of The Auditor General Cayman Islands. Cayman Islands Health System[2017]*

        HEALTH CITY CAYMAN ISLANDS
        “37. While HCCI is a private health care provider, it has received fee, duty, and regulatory concessions from the Cayman Islands Government as a strategic economic investment in medical tourism in the Cayman Islands. The scale of these concessions, given the investments made by HCCI, is larger than anything previously granted to other private health care entities in the Cayman Islands. Recently, HCCI has been expanding services and is listed as an in-network partner for several local health insurance companies for diagnostics, radiology and some primary care services that are in direct
        competition with other local providers.

        REGULATION OF MEDICAL TOURISM
        52. There is currently no stand-alone legislation that governs medical tourism. However, when the Government of the Cayman Islands signed the agreement to establish the medical tourism hospital HCCI, it updated the Health Practice Law to allow for the designation of Medical Tourism Providers and Medical Tourism Facilities (refer to Acute Care – Medical Tourism on page 44 for further
        information on medical tourism). Beyond the certification of the facility under the Health PracticeLaw, there are currently no additional regulatory requirements for medical tourism services.
        Medical tourism facilities and their health care practitioners are subject to the usual provisions of the Health Practice Law and Regulations”

        “112. Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) opened in early 2014 as a tertiary care hospital focused on growing medical tourism in the Cayman Islands. The hospital is a partnership with Narayana Health from India and Ascension Health, the largest faith-based health system in the United States. The services offered at HCCI include:
        • Cardiology department for adults and children
        (prevention, diagnosis, emergency care, surgery,
        treatment, rehabilitation and wellness services)
        • Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
        • Pulmonology services
        • Medical oncology
        • Spine surgery
        • Bariatric surgery
        • Critical care unit with 17 ICU beds
        • Executive health checks
        • Laboratory (haematology, biochemistry, serology, immunology, microbiology and immunohaematology)
        • Orthopaedic services (joint replacements and reconstructions, arthroscopic surgeries and deformity corrections)
        • Sports medicine
        • Paediatric endocrinology
        • Radiology and diagnostic services

        HEALTH CITY CAYMAN ISLANDS
        117. HCCI came into being with the signing of an agreement made in April 2010 between the Government of the Cayman Islands and the Narayana Hrudayalaya Private Limited, a hospital corporation based in Bangalore, India founded by Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty. In the agreement, the first phase of HCCI was to provide tertiary care services not currently available in the Cayman Islands, including open-heart bypass, angioplasty, heart valve replacement, cancer treatment, bone marrow transplant, nuclear medicine, organ transplant and similar major tertiary care procedures. In addition, the agreement states that “in the main, the hospital will cater for those non-resident
        patients who can afford to come to the Cayman Islands. However, it will also cater for the people of the Cayman Islands of all backgrounds and will provide the best health care for all those in need.” HCCI is not limited in any way or form to providing just medical tourism services; it can provide any health care services it chooses to the local population.

        118. As part of the agreement with government, many concessions were made, including but not limited to the following:
        • HCCI to be satisfied with new terms of a law limiting malpractice/negligence claims for noneconomic losses to a maximum of US $500,000;
        • recognition of Indian medical qualifications, timely approvals of the issuing of all certificates under the Health Practice Law, and registration of all health professionals (limited, however, to practicing health care only in HCCI unless they achieve board licensing from one of the seven approved countries);
        • waiving of a portion of the work permit fees; and
        • exemption from paying customs or duty on the first $800 million in value of all medical equipment and medical supplies and for the subsequent years be applied at a reduced rate.

        On the page 23 of the AG Report you will see the list of the public health regulations in the Cayman Islands that include only one regulation that pertains to medical waste which is “infectious”. Biomedical and Radioactive waste regulation do not appear exist in the Cayman Islands.

        *https://cnslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/OAG-Report-Cayman-Islands-Health-System-January-2017.pdf

  3. Johnny the Wad says:

    They could save 100 million and just put the hospital in the Scotia Bank footprint. Because they (Scotia) 100% aren’t doing any banking there.

  4. Anonymous says:

    Getting a cancer diagnosis is an unimaginably stressful time. Tests, scans, appointments, treatment plans.. and that’s just the logistics. Then there’s the emotional stuff – telling my family and friends, telling my employer, getting my head around my own mortality.. then there’s the money worries – will I be able to work still, will I be able to afford treatment, what will my insurance cover. All of the above is largely an ugly, unavoidable truth. Imagine on top of that, having to fly to the US, often with flights not covered by insurance, to see a cancer specialist. Going back and forth for tests. Staying in a hotel. Not being able to afford for someone to come with you for emotional support, so going through all of it alone. For anyone in this situation, or trying to support someone in this situation, cancer diagnostics, treatment and access to specialists on island is an unbelievable plus. To take just a few of the stresses and worries off the shoulders will be the biggest help for people going through the worst time of their life. To all those complaining – by all means discuss the practicalities of this project, but do not, ever, forget about the human element and the lives that this will improve immeasurably, and ultimately save.

  5. Anonymous says:

    Until now I did not know it was possible, to have too many Hospitals!

    • Anonymous says:

      Too many doctors. Over 500 doctors in Cayman, divided into a population of 60,000. You do the maths of how many patients per doctor!

      • Anonymous says:

        I wish I and those in my county were this fortunate. As I read, complaints about ‘not enough’ (substitute any popular term – e.g. ‘Expats, work permit holders, development, dollars from tourism, etc…); then complaints about ‘too much.’

        I guess the common theme is… ‘complain about anything’.

      • Anonymous says:

        See Appendix 11: The Cayman Islands Healthcare Force in the The Auditor General Report-see 2:50pm for the link

  6. Anonymous says:

    Wow, they really are worried about the proposed new MedCity hospital in WestBay. . .$100M worried!

  7. Anonymous says:

    How does discount elective surgery, and bargain-basement health tourism, square with the high-end tourism mantra, on an island with the highest cost of living in the Caribbean/Latin America? Get out your calculators.

  8. Anonymous says:

    Zero commitment to provide scholarships for Caymanian Medical students. Offering an internship during summer break is not good enough.

    No private sector hospital group provides this. Only CIG currently fund medical education.

  9. Anonymous says:

    I don’t like the GT hospital last year I spent one week. I asked everyday what was wrong with me and all they said was my blood pressure was very high,really? What caused my BP to go exceedingly high? Finally it went down to 165 and they said I could go home. No Indians. I went to Dr. Mohanti to find out what went wrong he looked up on a computer my record by GT hospital and they found out I had a rare disease and NEVER told me,why? This year I spent 10 days at Hospital City and they found all kinds of stuff. I’ve got sleep apnea, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity. Checking on my lungs to check on COPD as soon as there is a break in the COVID patients. Everything is getting resolved slowly because I’m doing the treatment which include exercise,dieting,oxygen at night and medicines. Big difference? I had all these problems for years I took tests including cat scans last year. What happen? You tell me.
    In conclusion has anybody else had problems in GT?
    So I am definitely in favor of Health City’s new hospital in Camana Bay. Miller,D

  10. Anonymous says:

    So many negative trolls on here.

  11. Anonymous says:

    Does this facility have the same indemnity granted to the original Health City that was supposed to service non resident patients only? Will the staff be on special work permits that do not require certification by the Health Practitioners Board?
    This is just CIG creating two tier healthcare.

  12. Anonymous says:

    Wonderful to have new medical facilities, but as a pensioner I won’t be able to afford it.

  13. Anonymous says:

    A cancer centre right next to the dump. Now that is supply and demand!

  14. Anonymous says:

    our ‘finacial services’ come in many shapes and forms….

  15. Anonymous says:

    I’m all for this! Now let’s build that waste management facility and get rid of the dump. Not very fitting to have a hospital next to a mountain of pollution.

    • Anonymous says:

      Shouldn’t fixing the dump come first especially after zillions of years of talk and promises – how and why is this hospital being built so quickly next to dump…

  16. Anonymous says:

    Before Health City, people complained (and still do) about poor service lack of specialty doctors at our Government Hospital and having to go abroad for certain conditions. Now that we are getting better facilities, doctors and reducing the need to go abroad, people complaining that we have too many. It must be good for their health to complain, complain, complain I guess.

    • Anonymous says:

      Patients from overseas get treatments, Health City gets payments, Caymanians get more waste to deal with to live with,..but don’t worry, they don’t have to travel WHEN they get cancer.

      • Anonymous says:

        You go to Miami: I will go to Health City and probably get better treatment with travel expenses.

    • Anonymous says:

      Why so many sick people in the Cayman Islands, aka Paradise, is the #1 question.

    • Anonymous says:

      Cheapest, old dogma fast-food healthcare is not the same as premium innovative healthcare. Two very different markets, for different clientele. We keep hearing that we want to go high end, and then strike a sweetheart deal with Dr Discount Procedure.

    • Anonymous says:

      Agreed, some people are only happy when they have something to moan about.

  17. anonymous says:

    Great news. You don’t realize what hardships people who need treatment overseas go through when they have to travel overseas for long periods of time. Its so much easier to do your treatment and go home. Health City already provides excellent care but to be able to do all cancer treatments in Cayman will be a plus for anyone with cancer.

  18. Anonymous says:

    It is backwards. Toxic environment, in most cases, causes cancer and congenital abnormalities. Yet only teenagers seem to care about Cayman environment and their future. Everybody else, including CIG, only worry about Covid. Turning what used to be real Paradise into a wasteland of concrete building and Cancer Hospitals. Madness.

    • Anonymous says:

      “Madness”.

      I hope you one day have to spend a month or two in Miami while your child is in a NICU ward in a Miami hospital getting specialist treatment.

      What a small-minded, frankly idiotic post.

  19. Anonymous says:

    Will never complain about having more hospitals.

    Picture in the compass is pretty funny though with all these fools lined up, disguised by their masks (outside in the fresh air no less) and hard hats (on a cleared lot). Great example of the critical thinking this pact of clowns follows.

    • Anonymous says:

      Is anyone forcing them to wear facemark outdoors? Pure lunacy. The image they portray… 🤦‍♀️ 🤯

    • Anonymous says:

      It is a conventional, ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony. Maybe you were “fooled”, you fool (to use your words)?

      Were you also confused by the shovels in the ground, thinking that maybe they were starting to dig the foundation?

      Google “groundbreaking ceremony” and look at the first 500 images that come up. Notice any similarities?

      (when there is an airplane ceremony at an airport and the firetrucks spray water on the airplane, do you ask why they are doing that as the airplane isnt on fire?)

  20. Anonymous says:

    All those commenting negatively feel free to fly to the US for cancer treatment. We will wave you off at the airport!

    • Anonymous says:

      Besides being a troll you are talking as if it is so NORMAL and EXPECTED to get Cancer in Cayman that Cancer treatment facility must be met with the open arms. This is tragic.

  21. Anonymous says:

    By 2030 you’ll have more hospitals than banks.

  22. Anonymous says:

    Grand Cayman is already suffocating in household, commercial, construction, demolition and biomedical waste. Lots of existing medical facilities already generate radioactive waste.

    Every project of such magnitude and complexity that presents environmental hazard for the territory and its people MUST START with the new or renewed regulations and actual construction of the specialised waste disposal facility in compliance with the regulations.

    New Health City hospital is going to generate lots of radioactive and biomedical waste.

    Radioactive waste must be collected in suitably designed and labeled containers and then buried in exclusive burial sites approved by the competent authority.

    I believe Cayman has no regulations, expertise, equipment, medical waste collection service, disposal facilities and certified professionals to deal with radioactive waste that will be generated by the new hospitals in addition to the waste generated by existing medical facilities. I believe there are no exclusive burial sites in Cayman, let alone approved by the competent authority.

    I also believe there were not a single article on the how and according with which regulations radioactive and biomedical waste in Cayman is disposed.

    I have no idea what Heath City is doing with its radioactive waste, but they have their own incinerator where they burns biomedical waste. Has it ever been inspected by the competent authorities? Is it being regularly monitored for incineration byproducts not exceeding the set limits and by whom? The answer is No. The Cayman Islands remains in the Stone Age when it comes the above mentioned biohazardous waste disposal✳️, therefore proceeding with another facility is a crime against all the people who reside and visit the territory.

    What CIG is doing to prevent an environmental catastrophe due to medical waste?

    Recent headlines:
    Untreated biomedical waste dumped at Brac landfill
    Ministry of Health to investigate medical waste on beaches
    Beach medical waste subject of investigation

    https://cnslocallife.com/2018/09/emissions-incinerators/
    ✳️“ While the DEH has provisions in place to monitor the construction and operation of incinerators, the official explained that the regulations do not include the “guidelines indicating what pollutants one should test for” [🤦‍♀️]. In addition, the DEH does not have the “necessary equipment to allow for adequate monitoring of such emissions at this time”.
    As for when the DEH will be able to test for these emissions, “It is hoped that (the department) will be able to do so in the foreseeable future.” MIND BOGGLING!

    Link to the outdated Public Health (Infectious Waste) Regulations (2002 Revision). https://cnslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/Public-Health-Infectious-Waste-Regulations-2002-Revision.pdf

    Appears Radioactive and Biomedical waste regulations don’t exist in the Cayman Islands.

    Please correct me if I am wrong.

    • Anonymous says:

      Regulating Authority and The Health City must respond.

      I doubt CIG would have anything to say. In fact, their answers are in the above comment: DON’T even KNOW what you’re talking about.

    • Anonymous says:

      Neither the past or present Ministers of Health would have a clue.

  23. Westbayman says:

    Everybody wins

  24. Anonymous says:

    Where do all the patients go when their dump catches on fire?

    • Anonymous says:

      Excellent comment!

    • Anonymous says:

      Imagine a person is being prepped for the bone marrow transplantation:
      • high doses of chemotherapy and radiation to kill the diseased cells and malfunctioning bone marrow is complete,
      • his immune system is suppressed,
      • he is in a protective negative isolation room….then… The Dump catches raging🔥…

      WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO NOW? Can’t evacuate such a patient and can’t leave him either. Have they though about that? Is there a step by step instruction on what to do? Where are they going to evacuate other patients? THIS WILL BE REALLY A SITUATION WHERE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CAN BE DONE.

    • Anonymous says:

      Does Cayman have professional Smoke and Fire Damage Restoration Companies?

      Who (other than Insurance company agent) inspects:

      – Window and Doors for any discoloration or warping on the windows or melted framework.
      – Plumbing and Heating for any signs of damage to pipes and ductwork
      – Structural Inspection- with the transfer of heat by iron/steel structures, the foundation can be destabilized and need careful inspection.
      – Roof Inspection-burning embers can land on your roof, causing damage to the roof structure due to the about of heat. Also gutters, and the wood underneath for any water damage. If there is water damage, you will need a new roof, before mold develops.
      – Siding, Stucco and Concrete Inspection- when siding is exposed to heat, it can melt, crack or spall
      – Walls and Framing Inspection

      I laughed when Cayman International School was conducting their own inspection and testing with hand held devices purchased probably on Amazon, having no qualification whatsoever, then announcing that the school (and the outdoor playgrounds and surfaces)are safe for the kids to return,

      • Anonymous says:

        The Fire Service flunked almost every category of competence beyond driving their trucks and washing them. Every hydrant is supposed to be tested annually. I don’t think our condo complex has seen a fire unit perform hydrant inspection and pressure test since before Ivan. No high rise experience and few suppression tools in a land addicted to 40 minute unlicensed fireworks shows.

        • Anonymous says:

          🤦‍♀️ 🤯 🙉

        • Anonymous says:

          I have seen them testing hydrants on one occasion. This was less professional than it sounds, as watching three very large men roll out of the truck cab and huff and puff their way to the hydrant, didn’t exactly give me faith of a rapid response in the event of an actual fire. In other countries, firemen have fitness tests and are by and large active, healthy people. Not so here! I agree though, they are very proficient in washing their trucks…!

  25. Anonymous says:

    Cue the usual CNS commenters to find fault in this development and start complaining….I’m waiting…..

    • Anonymous says:

      Don’t feed the troll

    • Anonymous says:

      And 18 hours later, just on cue….more than half the posts managed to find a way to complain about having access to specialist neonatal and oncology treatment!

      • Anonymous says:

        Hypothetically speaking, what else would Camana Bay need before it is considered a city?

        Its private land, yes the public are able to access for free but that is a licence so that no prescriptive rights accrue.

        Amenities, residence, school, emergency services/medical services, security. They only really need a 24/7 dedicated RCIPS office/presence. All that in just over a decade. One never has to leave!

        Anyway, enough with hypotheticals….

        The care is just better. Unfortunate but true. We knew it was coming. Mr. Scott and Mr. Saunders are besties this was in the cards long ago and come on….Mr. Saunders’ career aspirations do not stop where he is. Just need to deal with that pesky leader.

        Anyway, enough with speculations….

        I have been a patient at the public hospital – poor service, long waits, sub par care, misery. The other private hospital is no better. Ever overheard people chatting up man in the OR when you are about to have surgery? I have.

        I have been a patient at Health City. It costs. But, I didnt have to wait long. I was acknowledged and treated respectfully. I received great care.

      • Anonymous says:

        Tell me how much treatment costs?

  26. Anonymous says:

    Healthcare institutions generate enormous amount of waste which is considered as potentially hazardous in view of the inherent potential for dissemination of infection. Hospitals generate on an average, between 0.5 and two kilograms of waste per bed per day

    Most of the tertiary care hospitals use radioisotopes for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Safe disposal of the radioactive waste is a vital component of the overall management of the hospital waste.

    Most of the radioactive waste is liquid, with lesser amount of solid and minimal gaseous. The solid waste containing traces of radioactivity is in the form of syringes, needles, cotton swabs, vials, contaminated gloves and absorbent materials. Clothing and utensils of patients administered high doses of radioisotopes like I-131 constitute the solid radioactive waste material.

    Safe disposal of unused radioactive material and objects contaminated with it is a vital component of the overall strategy of hospital waste management. The fundamental objective of safe disposal of radioactive waste is to ensure that the radiation exposure to public, radiation workers and environment does not exceed the prescribed safe limits.

    Did Cayman City strategy of hospital(s), both current and the new one, waste management was reviewed and approved by the regulating authorities?

    Regular personal monitoring of hospital radiation workers, area monitoring of hospital environment and quality control of the radiation instruments is mandatory to asses the quality of existing radiation safety standards.

    Who is the Radiation Safety Officer at Health City who oversees all aspects of radiation safety including radioactive waste management? Does he coordinate such measures in accordance with guidelines prescribed by the International Commission on Radiation Protection and the Cayman Islands regulatory body?

    What safe levels of environmental radiation and personal radiation exposure of workers are and who monitors the compliance?

  27. Anonymous says:

    Cayman needs another hospital as a dog needs a 5th leg.

    The more toxic☠️ environment of the Cayman Islands=>the more residents get cancer=>the more hospitals to treat cancer needed=>the more cancer treating hospitals built=>the more toxic, radioactive, pharmaceutical waste cancer hospitals generate=> the more toxic biomedical waste disposed improperly and incinerated=>the more people get cancer.

    add

    biomedical waste generated by other hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, laboratories, funeral homes, dentists, veterinarians, physicians, pharmacies , body piercing salons, tattoo shops etc

    add

    biomedical waste generated by individuals in their own homes

    add

    hundred thousands of face masks, Covid testing waste, nasal testing swabs, testing result containers, any personal protecting equipment (gloves, gowns) that has blood, or bodily fluids with visible blood, used syringes, needles, and empty vaccine vials, vialtrays, remaining doses of vaccine etc.

    All the above in the ABSENSE of biomedical waste disposal regulations, qualified and experienced professionals to supervise, monitor, CONTROL and enforce rules and regulations (which don’t exist) and equipment to properly dispose biomedical waste.

    https://caymannewsservice.com/2021/02/concern-over-disposal-of-medical-waste/

    “Ministry silent over bio-waste dumping” https://caymannewsservice.com/2018/05/ministry-silent-over-bio-waste-dumping/
    CNS, it has been 5 years already, have they responded yet?

  28. WhaYaSay says:

    “which has leased the land to Health City”. Dart buys land! Caymanians should take heed, LEASE our land!

    • Anonymous says:

      This is nothing new – been happening since the last century. All the hotels lease from the landowner (almost 100% Dart now. Guess who made him Caymanian).

      • Anonymous says:

        Let’s not guess,
        McKeeva Bush gave Dart IRREVOCABLE
        Caymanian Status.

        The rest of us who earned it and are honoured to have it do not have irrevocable status.

  29. anon says:

    It would be nice if proposed developments from other developers happened this quickly. Years have passed and still nothing, just press releases.

  30. Anonymous says:

    I mean it’s pretty cool but we’re definitely gonna need the cancer center considering the dump is nearby.

  31. Anonymous says:

    We will have 5 large health facilities soon which will keep persons alive and drain their insurance/finances, but will we ever have the right to die with dignity, on our own terms?

  32. Anonymous says:

    More Indian staff therefore:
    more WP fees collected …
    more private school fees billed …
    more rent collected …
    more CUC billing …
    more WA billing…
    more Lime/Digicel billing …
    more spent at Foster/Kirks/Hurleys …
    more spent at all restaurants …
    more spent on personal grooming services (hair/nails/massage/barber/spas etc.) …
    more domestics employed
    more spent at liquor stores/bars/cigar clubs …
    more spent at all stores/business/ service providers …

    More money in circulation … better for Cayman

    • Anonymous says:

      Ummm, not quite. Health city employees can send their kids to Govt School. No private school fees for them. No full whack private sector work permit fees either…

    • Anonymous says:

      Except they will become Caymanian. Originally they had to only work at Heath city as their qualifications were not recognised by our medical licensing board. Alden changed that. Originally they were to be rolled over every 5 years (I think) as part of the fee trade off (Health City had concessions when built). Alden changed that.
      The doctors will become Caymanian & their spouses – taking over existing Caymanians jobs.

    • anon says:

      3.13pm This applies to all expat businesses but they were not set up on false premises.

    • Anonymous says:

      These are your assumptions. They have their own residential buildings and probably a store or two.

    • Anonymous says:

      ‘more spent at liquor stores/bars/cigar clubs’ – don’t think so!

    • Anonymous says:

      More inflation and costs for everyone

      Roll up, roll up everyone’s a winner

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