With a $3.2 million donation from Kent Rockwell, a resident of Grand Bahama, Doctors Hospital of Nassau has launched a campaign to raise additional funding to build a state-of-the-art private hospital for Grand Bahama and a clinic in Eight Mile Rock. 

Under the direction of President Dr. Charles Diggiss, Doctors’ team has launched the EAGLE initiative (Exuma, Abaco, Grand Bahama, Long Island and Eleuthera) to bring healthcare to all islands with critical mass. 

This will start in Grand Bahama, with the first of its two facilities projected to open at the end of May in Eight Mile Rock.

“Eight Mile Rock will be a 2,500-square-foot, state-of-the-art primary care clinic, with three exam rooms, a procedure room and a fully functioning dialysis center with six dialysis bays,” said Dennis D. Deveaux, CFO for Doctors Hospital Health System.

“It represents our commitment to primary care and wellness in the largest settlement anywhere in The Bahamas.”

The new facility has taken over retired Dr. Malik Kavala’s well-known practice in the community.

”Dr. Kavala had a small, private practice here. We are going to be able to merge his private patients and add to it more local citizens’ care via the NHI (National Health Initiative),” said Dr. Dawn Galagher, who will head the new clinic as lead practitioner.

“We are going to name the clinic the Kavala Medical Center in his honor, as he was a stalwart of this community, and we want to continue his work here and hope to offer more services with the dialysis beds, too.”

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