The recently completed works to modernise and upgrade the Male and Female General Wards and the staff dining room at the Gozo General Hospital have been inaugurated by Gozo Minister Giovanna Debono.

Works included the replacement of the vinyl floor lining, and apertures which have now been installed with reflective glass for better insulation and energy saving, the addition of electrical and low voltage services, and the installation of bed-head trunking which now provide for the supply of medical gases and other services directly to each bed.

The new headboards have also been serviced with an advanced communication system which will eventually provide each bed with separate access to telephone, television and Internet services. These works follow other general decorative works that were carried out in recent years. The project is estimated to have cost Lm100,000.

The dining room project follows the upgrading of the hospital catering system that included the introduction of the pre-plating system, resulting in the delivery of hot and cold plates on a tray directly to the patient in the different wards.

Works involved the removal of the previous false ceilings and roofing which have been replaced with new roof cladding and a new ceiling, as well as tiling, plastering and painting, and upgrading of sanitary facilities.

Speaking during the inauguration, Minister Debono said that priority has been given to patient-areas, citing upgrading and modernisation works carried out in the Male Elderly Ward, Residenza Sant'Anna, the Maternity Ward, the Paediatrics Ward, the Emergency Department and the Outpatients Department, while new sections were set up to improve the quality of service offered by the hospital.

Minister Debono referred to the new Gynaecology Unit, the Renal Unit, the Isolation Unit and the several new medical services that were introduced in recent years at the Gozo General Hospital. Staff areas, including the Medical Records Department, laboratory, operating theatre, the Central Sterile Supplies Department and the doctors' quarters, were also modernised.

Minister Debono also referred to the upcoming projects, for which tenders have already started being issued. The projects include the complete upgrading of the second operating theatre and the setting up of a Radiology Unit.

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