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88 89 THE MEDICAL PAVILION BAHAMAS countries and around 700,000 people. “The Government of Antigua and Barbuda is a 20 percent shareholder in The Cancer Centre Eastern Caribbean, while my company, Global Health Partners Limited, is the princi- pal. In our Partnered Care Model, we ask the private sector to bear the brunt of capital costs in the development and delivery of the advanced medical services, and then offer them back to the government at a substan- tial discount, usually without any capital injection on their part. We’ve done this in a number of countries now, including a new cardiac wing that we just opened in a private hospital earlier this year in Jamaica.” BVC: What services are provided at TMPB? Dr. Brown: “The Medical Pavilion Bahamas is my parent company, and that facility just keeps growing with a whole host of services. We have 10-plus centres in the Pavilion, including The Heart Centre Bahamas, The Cancer Centre Bahamas, and The Imaging Centre (the only nuclear imaging facility in the country). We have our own lab and phar- macy and the first fully digital haemodialy- sis unit in the Bahamas, and possibly in the Caribbean. “We’ve started The Partners Clinical Re- search Centre, where we do research locally, as well as for international companies, and we participate in clinical trials, FDA trials, First in Man Procedures, etc. We’re also very proud of The Partners Stem Cell Centre. We’re active in stem cell research and therapies for heart disease, and last year, we started an an- ti-aging, anti-frailty treatment program using stem cells, in association with Longeveron, initially associated with the University of Mi- ami. It will be a real boost for trans-national medical care (medical tourism) in the Ba- hamas because we can administer the stem cells here in The Bahamas, but they cannot be administered in the US yet – and that’s proba- bly another five years away after the comple- tion of other clinical trials. “In March, we opened The Institute for Ad- vanced Medical Procedures to provide high- tech advanced procedures that cannot be done in North America. We render these ser- vices in the Bahamas with FDA Rigor (inter- national standards maintained) In a Non-FDA Jurisdiction. The Institute will allow the early introduction of new devices and technologies