PM admits CRH rebuild would have been cheaper
Prime Minister Andrew Holness acknowledged that demolishing and rebuilding the Cornwall Regional Hospital would have been cheaper than the rehabilitation efforts of the last ten years. Speaking at the reopening of the Accident and Emergency Department, he noted the facility had ongoing infrastructural issues. Holness pointed out that the process of building a hospital differs from building a hotel. He mentioned that several hotels were completed in the time it took to restore this specific hospital.
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has admitted that it would have been more cost-effective to demolish and rebuild the Montego Bay-based Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) when it started having infrastructural problems, instead of rehabilitating it over the past decade. “Building a hospital is not the same as building a hotel,” Holness said at the reopening of the Accident and Emergency Department on Friday, noting that a few hotels have been built in the time taken to restore the hospital .