The Yarmouth Regional Hospital is still a construction site as repairs continue as a result of December’s flood.
More areas have been reopened but spokesman Fraser Mooney says it will be the summer before all the work is complete.
Mooney says there’s a common question he gets from the public and staff.
‘What’s happening, we don’t see any work going on’
“That’s really a good thing because the work is being done in areas that have been sealed off and isolated for infection control reasons. We don’t want dirt and dust floating through sensitive areas of the hospital so we put up barriers. So people don’t see the work happening but it’s literally happening behind the scenes.”
Mooney says the main goal now is to have the corridor between Building A, the new hospital and Building C, the old hospital, open by mid-March.
“That will also open up our ambulatory care, reception area as well as the waiting area for Diagnostic Imaging and really improve the traffic flow for patients who need to go from Diagnostic Imaging to the lab.”
Mooney says the final cost has not been determined.
