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LAGOON HOSPITAL

Lagoon Hospital opened in 1986 and started out as a provider of tertiary level healthcare services and preventive health screening facilities in a fee-for-service system targeted at the high-end market. The Hospital provides a full range of services: primary care, health assessment for executives, and specialist care-surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics & gynaecology, ortorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, psychiatry, dermatology, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, physiotherapy, etc.

It has a 50-bed in-patient facility (1-bed, 2-bed, 3-bed and 4-bed rooms) with 3 operating theatres, an intensive care unit, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy and a large outpatient facility.

With about 25 consultants covering 20 different specialties and various modern diagnostic facilities, the hospital can provide for the most tertiary care needs.

The following specialties are available:

Complex surgical procedures such as brain surgery, spinal cord surgery and thoracic surgery are routinely performed while complex medical cases such as stroke (CVA), myocardial infarction (heart attack) and comatose conditions are effectively managed.

The detailed list of services provided at the hospital is as follows:

• General medical consultations and treatment
• Special medical and surgical consultations
• Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Various diagnostic laboratory tests, (such as for Clinical Chemistry, Haematology, microbiology and Histopathology)
• X-rays and other Radiological services
• Access to specialised diagnostic services such as:
  Fibre-Optic Endoscopy for diagnosis of Upper Gastrointestinal disorders (example ulcer)
  Audiography (i.e. hearing tests)
  Ophthalmology, (i.e. vision screening, Slit lamp, retinoscope, schiotztonometer, friendman visual field analyser, etc.)
  Ultrasound scanning of the abdomen
  Electrocardiography
  Echocardiography
  Spirometry (i.e. lung function tests)
  Fibre-Optic cystoscopy (i.e. bladder examination)
  Urodynamic studies (i.e. assessment of urine flow)
• Emergency room services and minor outpatient surgical procedures such as suturing of lacerations and drainage of abscesses.
• Physiotherapy and physical rehabilitation services
• Provision of prescribed drugs from the hospital pharmacy
• Health assessment and preventive maintenance services