Barbados Health Care
People come to Barbados to experience a relaxing holiday and during this Barbados health care plays a vital role. During you stay in Barbados, you need to take care of your health. Barbados health care is excellent and have highly expert medical professional. Here you will get the Queen Elizabeth Hospital that is purely Government owned and is located outside of the Bridgetown. This is Barbados total service hospital that offers intensive care facilities. This hospital offers mutual deal for British nationals on the NHS (National Health Service) scheme. Sometimes this hospital is overcrowded and you have to wait long for your health needs. For this Barbados health care offers 24*7 emergency desk number 511 or 436-6450.
Well, Barbados health care offers 2 important hospitals, 2 medical centers, dozens of public and private clinics and hundred private doctors those who are always ready to assist you. Here most of the hospitals support government polyclinics, health centers. The Government of Barbados health care functions Barbados Drug Service. This is the right way to control and distribute different types of necessary drugs in the country. In Belleville, St. Michael you will get FMH Emergency Medical Clinic. Barbados health care offers diversity of services for the people of Barbados and travelers.
On ground at Barbados, there are 2 major hospitals, 2 medical centers, dozens of well equipped private & public clinics all over the island as well as more than 100-private of doctors in the practice. 600 bed, state funded Queen Elizabeth Hospital, that was established 44-years before, offers broadest variety of the services, which includes 24 hour accident & emergency. It also accounts for 90%-of acute care beds at Barbados. QEH is equipped well and doubles as teaching hospital, part of 64 year old Faculty of the Medical Sciences of University of West Indies. Hospital is been used by UWI mainly for pre clinical training as well as internships for the medical graduates. There is as well smaller, and privately owned the Bayview Hospital, outside capital of Bridgetown, which is offering personalized attention.
