Residents may be inconvenienced tomorrow and Saturday as the Pharmacy Unit, located in the basement of Peebles Hospital, will be closed for the day, but the unit will re-open Monday on the first floor of the new hospital, according to the BVI Health Services Authority.
At the new location, patients will enter a larger waiting area with four service windows and one cashier window, allowing more patients to be served at the same time, a BVIHSA press release states.
The new location is about four times the size of the old one, said Pharmacy Manager Jermaine Lowrie.
“With the added space, we can now order larger supplies of medication as we have the space to store them,” Mr. Lowrie said, adding that one of the pharmacy’s four service windows is “handicap accessible.”
The new location also includes a private room where each patients collecting medication can receive instructions on their prescription from a pharmacist, according to the BVIHSA.
The hours of operation at the new location will be 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays and holidays.
Monday will mark the re-opening of the Road Town Health Centre at the Outpatient Clinic at Peebles Hospital, according to the BVIHSA. The clinic will operate from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “on specific Saturdays.”
“Confidentially is a must-have when providing health and medical care,” said BVIHSA Chief Executive Officer Darlene Carty-Baptiste. “Many times patients want to ask questions but are embarrassed because other patients are in the waiting area.”
The next offices set to transition to the new building are Physiotherapy, the Medical Records Unit, the Billing Department and Dietary Services, according to the BVIHSA.
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