Day care hope

PRESIDENT OF THE Hope Foundation, Shelly Weir,  is hopeful a medical day unit for the treatment  of diseases such as  sickle cell anaemia will be established within the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) by the end  of the year.
“I can say I am  50 per cent confident  the medical day unit will happen before the end of the year. It is certainly much further than it was in the past couple of years and I have seen movement to suggest it is coming  on stream,” she said, adding that the foundation  had proposed the establishment of  the unit since 2001.
Weir was speaking  to the media yesterday, World Sickle Cell Day, during the launch of  a University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus study on women with children suffering with sickle cell anaemia  at Amaryllis Beach Resort, Hastings, Christ Church.
Part of the findings showed problems with medical professionals  and the Accident & Emergency Department (A&E) of the QEH.