Two companies have teamed up with the Antigua and Barbuda government and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to create what officials are calling the Eastern Caribbean’s first cancer treatment centre.
Company representatives and the Antigua government formally broke ground on the Cancer Centre of the Eastern Caribbean on Friday. The facility, which will cost an estimated $5 million, is scheduled to be complete by 2013, according to the Antigua Chronicle.
The facility is a private-public partnership between the OECS, the Antigua government, MEI Healthcare Partners and Global Health Partners, Ltd.
Besides Antigua, the facility will be open to all members of the OECS States, including the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
See the May 3, 2012 edition for full coverage.
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