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Grenada government “ready to go’’ with new teaching hospital

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New York, June 2, 2014 – Grenada has secured backing from the Chinese government and other overseas partners who will join St George’s University (SGU) in establishing a new teaching hospital in the country, Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has announced.

“We are ready to go, Sisters and Brother,’’ Dr Mitchell told a town hall meet in New York Sunday. “The benefits are going to be enormous.’’

The former administration had floated the idea of the teaching hospital, but had only named SGU as a partner without identifying any other backers of the health facility project.

Prime Minister Mitchell indicated Sunday that not only has his New National Party administration secured material support for the teaching hospital, but also promised that it would be a “first class facility’’ that will “sell Grenada as a serious place of health tourism’’, where nationals – including those residing in the Diaspora – could receive top medical treatment and also use it to recuperate.

New York is the first stop of a three-city visit by a delegation headed by the prime minister and including deputy prime minister and minister of legal affairs Elvin Nimrod; health minister Dr Clarice Modeste-Curwen; and government advisor and former foreign minister Peter David.

In addresses to the audience, which included Grenadian nationals, as well as diplomats and representatives of various level of government in New York, Mitchell, Nimrod, Modeste-Curwen and David, thanked Grenadians in the Diaspora for their ongoing support and assistance to Grednada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

“Our friends in the Diaspora have assisted us greatly,’’ Modeste-Curwen said.

Nimrod added that the Diaspora is valued and loved.

“We value your support; we value your contribution,’’ Nimrod said.

At the meeting, it was disclosed that diplomat Derrick James – the former Grenada consul general to New York – had been an appointed an ambassador to the United Nations.

As ambassador, James has special responsibility for Humanitarian Affairs and Diaspora Affairs.

The prime minister’s delegation is also travelling to Montreal and Toronto.

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