Business View Caribbean | Volume 8, Issue 8

29 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 8, ISSUE 8 QUEEN EL I ZABETH HOSP I TAL vulnerable patients now being enrolled in this program and we’re hoping in the long-term that it will impact the number of times they present to Accident and Emergency or require admission.” BVC: Was there ever a shortage of PPE supplies? Cave: “We were spared, but we came very close. There were some shortages but nowhere near what you hear on CNN about other Caribbean territories. For example, we were out of XXL body suits but we had enough of the other sizes. It took a little while to refine that kind of thing. Some of the gifts we were given, when we put them into use turned out to be not an appropriate match for our needs. So we had counted 200,000 of whatever and when it came time to use them we found out “oops, that’s not working” and we had to look for others. But by and large we have gotten through this with intermittently coming quite close to the cliff but never dropping over it.