SMART Hospital Project is Underway

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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics

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The Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization, with sponsorship from the Department of International Development of the United Kingdom, are hosting town hall meetings across the country to obtain feedback from the public about the retrofitting of several health facilities.  The retrofitting of the facilities is a part of the PAHO SMART Hospital Project that is ongoing in the Caribbean and is being implemented independently in a number of countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean. But what does it mean for a hospital to be considered SMART? According to the Ministry of Health, it means that they have combined their structural and operation safety with green interventions. A News Five crew stopped in at the town hall meeting in Belmopan today.

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