The capacity at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s regular Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was not affected by the establishment of a specialised COVID-19 ICU at the facility, according to the hospital’s Communications Manager Chelauna Providence.
Providence, in an interview with Stabroek News, said, “Having a COVID ICU at the hospital has not affected our regular ICU; the COVID ICU that we set up at the hospital was in a space that, yes, we were using for other patients but it definitely did not disrupt our regular ICU or any of our ICU wards”.
Providence told this newspaper that the relocation of the COVID-19 ICU to the Liliendaal hospital is also not expected to disrupt regular operations at the hospital. According to her, the hospital, since the COVID-19 outbreak has been operating as per normal with minor changes which were not connected to the setting up of the specialized ICU at GPH.
