Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali says the open­ing of the new mul­ti-mil­lion Di­a­mond Re­gion­al Hos­pi­tal, will pro­vide health care ser­vices for more than 40,000 peo­ple along the East Bank cor­ri­dor.

“This is an in­vest­ment that will en­sure our women, chil­dren, el­der­ly and all alike have a lev­el of treat­ment that is not based on in­come (or) sta­tus. That is what this in­vest­ment is do­ing: (pro­vid­ing) qual­i­ty, ef­fi­cient, eq­ui­table ser­vices. This is an in­vest­ment in the peo­ple of our coun­try,” Ali told the cer­e­mo­ny that was at­tend­ed by Prime Min­is­ter Mark Phillips, Vice Pres­i­dent, Bhar­rat Jagdeo, oth­er Cab­i­net mem­bers, health of­fi­cials, and res­i­dents of the area,

The gov­ern­ment said that the hos­pi­tal with 75 in­pa­tient beds as well as three op­er­at­ing the­atres, has been con­struct­ed to meet Chi­nese, British, and Amer­i­can med­ical stan­dards.