NCRHA performs 23,000 surgeries

GML Cor­re­spon­dent

The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) has per­formed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8,400 ma­jor sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures and an­oth­er 15,000 pro­ce­dures in oth­er ar­eas, in­clud­ing den­tal ser­vices, un­der its new board and man­age­ment, with the num­bers con­tin­u­ing to rise.

NCRHA chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh at­trib­uted the in­crease to the ded­i­ca­tion of staff, par­tic­u­lar­ly con­sul­tant sur­geons and reg­is­trars, who he said con­tin­ued to pro­vide ex­cel­lent clin­i­cal ser­vices while train­ing fu­ture gen­er­a­tions of med­ical pro­fes­sion­als.