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Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has con­firmed that Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing ahead with plans to op­er­a­tionalise the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal, and may con­sid­er the re­cruit­ment of for­eign nurs­es if need­ed.

Speak­ing ex­clu­sive­ly to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Bo­doe said the fa­cil­i­ty had been ful­ly equipped when it was first opened by the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment in 2015 and had a struc­tured plan for com­mis­sion­ing.

He said this process in­volves open­ing ser­vices grad­u­al­ly over sev­er­al months, in­clud­ing re­lo­cat­ing staff and re­cruit­ing new per­son­nel.