QEH hurdle

Chief executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Dr Dexter James. (FP)

Sat, August 18, 2012 - 12:08 AM

It isn't predicting higher fees or a cutback in services, but the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is heading to the point where it won’t have the money to fully maintain its wide-ranging patient care programme.

Chief executive officer Dr Dexter James spoke of the problem facing the island’s No. 1 health care institution last Thursday and advised policymakers to act swiftly to solve it.

“We are getting very close to that day in which we will not be able to sustain the packages of services we provide,” he said in answer to a question from the audience about sustainability of hospital services.

He was speaking at the first public accountability review meeting of the QEH, entitled Reflections On The Past And Future Directions at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.

James said sustainability was “an interesting but troubling question because the packages that we currently provide are unsustainable if we do not dispassionately address the question of financing”. (JS)

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Posted by Frank Husbands 9 months ago: Between health care and education Barbados going broke.Barbados isn't poor anymore,even the Americans believe we have reached developed status and should be graduated from loans designed for poor countries.In developed countries citizens pay for their health care and education.To digress, when Barbados was poor education wasn't free.Continuing, if our politicians keep up the shenanigans these two areas health and education will put us in the poor house with a dollar devaluation and crippling adjustments thanks to the IMF.So carry on as usual.

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Posted by Bim Bum 9 months ago: QEH's basic problem is our inculcated attitude of Free-ness!
Our socialist mentality whereby The State shall look after us
is the crux of the matter.

Most Bajans don't understand that the Government pays for NOTHING!
BAJANS pay for everything:
Gov't. only handles the taxation money IN..
-and the financing of all that lovely "free" stuff
on the OUT end of it.

YOU the Bajan Taxpayer
are paying indirectly for every single "free" thing you think you are receiving "free"!
So keep demanding free this and free that
but when VAT gone up to 20% to afford the "free" stuff, I don't want to hear y'all bawling, okay?

There is no such thing as a free lunch
-not even in blessed Barbados.
Please remember that.