Holness admits CRH rebuild would have been cheaper

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 .