No quick solution to hospital beds crisis

Thu, Jan 9th 2020, 07:00 AM

HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands said yesterday that the issue of bed shortages at Princess Margaret Hospital will not be resolved until emergency care services at the Elizabeth Estates and South Beach clinics have expanded and renovations at PMH’s emergency department have been completed. “There has been movement, but the problem (of bed shortages) is not fully corrected,” he told reporters during a press conference at the Ministry of Health yesterday. “The only thing that’s going to correct it will be to get the emergency department renovations completed and to get the Elizabeth Estates and South Beach alternative options completed and those projects are moving along.

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