David.
Medical tourism is not really new to Barbados, although it was not called that then. But early in the last century many rich folk from Guyana came to Barbados to facilitate their recovery from infectious illnesses like TB.Pat can tell you a lot about this, as she grew up in the area.

When the homes in Sunset strip in Holetown were owned by wealthy snow birds, many of them employed local nurses around the clock. This went on into the early 80’s, at least.

These might have been primordial beginnings, but many big businesses start simply like this.

The high number of simultaneous blogs is what makes BU successful. It allows those of us with a brain to share a view other than politics and who biting who and who is a buller etc.

Note that topics of serious import dont seem to fly on BU, MOST PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE BETZPAENIA THAT IS RAMPANT ON POSTERS OF YOUR ILK!

TOO MANY POSTS? YES FOR THOSE OF SHORT ATTENTION SPAN, INTER ALIA. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS READ ONLY THE POSTS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN. E.G THOSE FROM CARSON CADOGAN.

Three wicked balls there from GP, bowling from the Southern End.

@David.
When the DLP bought St. Joseph Hospital after they were elected in 1986, the utilization of this hospital as a centre for treatment of patients from North America was one of the objectives of the proposed hospital. I was on the committee; chaired by Dr. Erskine Simmons, that made the decision to purchase the hospital (from the Vatican, who it turned out were the owners of the property). The committee compared prices paid by Blue Shield and Blue Cross for various procedures and were of the opinion that these procedures could be done in Barbados, we could raise foreign exchange and at the same time have the patients as potential visitors after their recovery. Unfortunately after the BLP won power in the next election they completely abandoned the hospital (even though it was finished and functional). However the proposed new hospital on the same property would obviously be used for such a purpose. It needs to be looked at again.

@GP. When the homes in Sunset strip in Holetown were owned by wealthy snow birds, many of them employed local nurses around the clock. This went on into the early 80′s, at least.
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Also many of these “nurses”, or servants as they were called in the early days, were employed not privy to the true nature of the complaint that those under their care were suffering from. As a result many of these nurses/servants were stricken with TB ,especially. I knew of an entire family that were wipe out, when a daughter was commuting between the sick person and her own home.

GP always trying to put down people
pompous old bitch

In the synopsis prepared by SFU it is stated that a private Corporation out of the US will be operating the proposed medical facility in the North of the island. One of the questions that immediately come to mind is whether the personnel (doctors) will be local or foreign. If locals are used one can be sure that they will be the best talent available which could have a detrimental impact on the health of the local populace.

If Doctor “A” with a specialized skill set is hired to perform a procedure on patients at these facilities those locals waiting for treatment in B’dos may have their wait time extended. Foreign doctors may well fit the bill but the B’dos Gov’t should ensure that the qualifications of any medical practitioner who comes to perform are vetted before any permission is granted to operate.

@Sarge

there is an agreemnt that there will be a transfer of skills to local doctors, The objective is not to create a dearth of doctors to service the existing health facilities. doctors will be coming from overseas.

yes i will leave the USA and Europe and canada where they have the best doctors in the world to barbados a little negro infested country to be butchered by some locally trained student.
hold on i coming.
does it include some free bamboo?????yahooooooooooooo