Works on COVID-19 hospital progressing

(Guyana Chronicle) CONSTRUCTION of the country’s first COVID-19 hospital is moving apace. Works began last Monday on the former Ocean View Hotel, located on the Rupert Craig Highway, Liliendaal. The building is being converted to a COVID-19 facility for the incubation, isolation, quarantine and medical attention for persons diagnosed with, or suspected to have the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

The works have an estimated timeline of approximately two months. However, some of the contractors working on the facility have noted that they have been facing constraints in sourcing materials and incorporating social distancing and necessary measures even as they go about refurbishing the building. Nonetheless they are striving to meet the target timeline.

“To fulfill these large orders in a short space of time, a lot of the suppliers have challenges, these are some of the constraints we are facing in terms of getting the materials and supplies. It will take some time but we’re working to see if we can make that deadline, and finish in a month and a half or so,” Site Supervisor Wayne Newton explained.

Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) Senior Engineer, Naresh Mangar, explained that works on the building are currently being executed by two contractors – International Import and Supplies and Ivor Allen Construction.

“The two main contractors on the project right now they’re responsible for remodeling of the internal three floors. A section of the facility has three storeys. The three-storey section is the medical section which will include the ICU [Intensive Care Unit] on the ground floor and the two floors above will be the HDU [High Dependency Unit]. The L-shaped section of the building will be for isolation and quarantine,” Mangar explained.

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