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.
