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Press Release

Date - 12th March 2009

Title - Keyhole surgery continues at Tapion Hospital by Dr. John George of the Washington Hospital Center

Advanced Gynecological Laparoscopic (Keyhole) Surgery continues at Tapion Hospital during the week starting 23rd February, 2009. This project was the brainchild of Dr. Trona Bennett, who passed away in January.

Fifty patients from Saint Lucia, Barbados and Trinidad were successfully operated on by Dr. John George FACOG, training local gynecologists and surgeons, as well as a doctor from Barbados.

This keyhole surfery project has now seen 50 patients operation on, with shorter hospital stay, quick recovery time, and excellent cosmetic results. Tapion Hospital is committed Dr. Bennett;s dream of making Tapion Hospital the center for Laparoscopic surgery in the region. The next session of keyhole operations is scheduled for September 2009.



COSEHC is please to announce that Tapion Hospital has been recognized as a new Center of Excellence. Located in St. Lucia, West Indies, this 25-bed community funded hospital is a partnership between the private and public sector. Private physicians work together with the government of St. Lucia and Ministry of Health in development of guidelines, provision of services and national prevention strategies including a focus on diabetes, hypertension, CHF, stroke, and vascular diseases.

The Consortium for South-eastern Hypertension Control is a nonprofit organization created in 1992 to improve the disproportionate hypertension-related morbidity and mortality throughout the region.