Health Minister visits Bodden Town Clinic

Bodden Health Centre at the Youth Hall of the Seventh
Day Adventists, (l-r) Dr Kiran Kumar, Pastor Wilton
McDonald, Dr David Finnigan, Pastor Jeffery Thompson,
Hon Gilbert McLean, Ms Andrea Bryan, Viane Montoya,
Ms Annie Kay Price

Friday,  December 3, 2004

Bodden Town Health Clinic, which, since Hurricane Ivan has been situated, at the Seventh Day Adventist Church Hall, was visited by the Hon Gilbert McLean, Minister for Health Services, Agriculture, Aviation and Works. 

At the Centre, Mr McLean met Health Service representatives as well as representatives from the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists. 

After looking around, Mr McLean praised the staff of the Centre, saying, “You’ve done a remarkable job.”

The Clinic is actually situated in what used to be the children’s section of the Seventh-day Adventist church hall; the children’s section has been relocated upstairs in the Youth Hall.

Mr McLean said that he had always associated religion as being, historically, one of the main forces promoting good health in society.

Speaking on behalf of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, Pastor Jeffery Thompson said: “We see the provision of health care paramount; we consider it to be the ‘right arm’ of the gospel. In the Epistle of John, it says, “I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.”

Staff at the Centre have taken trouble to ensure that the high standards demanded from a medical centre are maintained at the clinic. “The cleaners who used to clean at the Health Clinic clean here,” Mr McLean pointed out.

Annie Kay Price, Senior Public Health Nurse was keen to point out that the corridor leading from the Seventh Day Adventist Church Hall to the clinic is usually blocked off by a bolted partition to prevent intrusion from people using the hall.

The Pastor of the Bodden Town assembly, Wilton McDonald, said that he was made aware of the need for temporary premises for the Bodden Town clinic when Eloise Reid and Dr Kumar met with him in the Bodden Town hurricane shelter. After the meeting, Pastor Wilson consulted with Jeffery Thompson, who gave the go-ahead for the hall to be used as a temporary health centre.

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