New Festival City Polyclinic offering COVID-19 testing, vaccination among other services.

THE HEALTH-CENTRE-TURNED-POLYCLINIC IN FESTIVAL CITY will offer
residents a wide range of services including testing for the dreaded COVID-19 virus and
vaccination services Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony said.
The ministry spent some $3M to transform the facility, and Anthony at its commissioning this
week announced the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) will take over its day-
today management from the Regional Health Services (RHS), making the new facility’s services
on par with the country’s premier health institution.
“At the Festival City polyclinic, you would now have MCH (maternal and child health) services,
general clinics for medical conditions. In addition, we will have laboratory services, imaging
services, meaning X-rays and ultrasounds. We would also have at the facility a dentist to provide
care and a section of the facility is dedicated to rehabilitation,” the minister said.
He continued, “We also provide VCT (voluntary counselling and testing) HIV counselling and
we are also going to introduce COVID-19 testing. (We will also) create a vaccination site at the
polyclinic. So, this range of services, I think will better suit the community that is there.”
He noted that with the addition of these new services, the clinic will see an influx of doctors and
nurses providing improved health care to residents. He said so far the polyclinic has three general
medical doctors, six nurses, one counsellor and two pharmacists to provide basic health care.
Between 50 and 60 persons have been receiving services daily since the polyclinic’s
commissioning, minister Anthony revealed.