Business View Caribbean | Jan 2019

79 Calixte: “Since we’ll have equipment that we don’t have in our present structure, I foresee so much more being done, including medical tourism.We have neighboring islands such as Dominica, Grenada, and St. Vincent, whose people might want to come across to St. Lucia to get some of the procedures done. That, we could not have done before. “Also, I see opportunity for longer hours of service–persons may want to open the operating theater longer, giving operating theater rights to other physicians in the private sector. That would be a form of us getting money.We’ll be able to offer other services that are now done privately, such as rheumatology clinics.When we have more staff on, we can open to the private sector, letting them come in and use our resources to provide healthcare to the public of St. Lucia and people coming in from the other islands for medical reasons. “Victoria Hospital has served the island well for over 150 years and is now moving into a state-of-the-art healthcare facility. Yes, we are overwhelmed with the transitioning, but we are also extremely excited and have great expectations for the future of healthcare on St. Lucia.” PREFERRED VENDOR n Atwell Dalgliesh (St. Lucia) Ltd. www.atwelldalgliesh.com