4. Mandeville Regional Hospital Development Programme
The development of Operating Theatres and a Spectacle Laboratory at the Mandeville Regional Hospital is nearing completion. It is anticipated that the minor works which remain will be completed soon, allowing for the installation, configuration and testing of the equipment which have been procured and being held in storage.
With the commissioning of the additional theatre space, the Southern Regional Health Authority in Jamaica will move from just under 500 cataract surgeries per year (based on four (4) to six (6) hours of theatre time each week) to approximately 2000 cataract surgeries each year, in a population of 612,000 residents.