Private And Public Hospitals Case Study

Trinidad and Tobago’s health care industry has become an immense business, as seen in the excess of Private and Public hospitals, clinics, medical centres and health centres established. Since the late 20th Century the island of Trinidad has seen the emergence of private and public hospitals in an attempt to deliver wider services to treat individuals and to become a safe haven for people to get well and live longer lives. Currently in Trinidad there are private hospitals especially along the East/West corridor, which seek to offer the initial goal of transforming individual’s lives for the better. Some of these towns along the East/West corridor are plunged with Private Hospitals which have undergone significant infrastructural expansions
Augustine Private Hospital in 2011 announced the opening with the expansion of their hospital, of the second Doctor’s clinic on the Mezzanine floor within their grounds. This expansion supplies the huge demand for doctor-patient relationships in the country. Catering to the needs of individuals throughout the nation, the Hospital lengthened their range of services in their Mezzanine Clinic in the areas of Gynaecology (the practice that deals directly with the health of the female reproductive organs), Neurosurgery (the performance of surgery on the brain and the spinal cord- nervous system), Psychiatry (the study of mental illness, abnormal behaviour and treatment of emotional disturbances), Pediatrics, Obstetrics (practices concerned with childbirth and treating or caring for women during childbirth), Orthopaedics (this deals mainly with the correction of deformities and disorders for impairments of the skeletal system) and Surgeries- General, Plastic and Paediatric. Renovations were made to the building and services expanded to supply the growing demand in the country and especially in the highly populated towns in the East/ West
The responses from the survey depicted the reason for the growth of private hospitals as individuals have much more self-assurance and reliance in them. Individuals have less negative things to say about private hospitals opposed to public ones. They expand their services to cater to these needs as more individuals are relying on the private sector more than the