On Wednesday 04 December 2013 Project Director Gene Thompson announced that Shomari Scott will be the Head of Marketing at Health City Cayman Islands.  We are delighted Mr Scott is on-board with Health City and look forward to his expertise to help Health City grow throughout the Caribbean Region and abroad!!

Scott said even though he hadn’t commenced his new post he, like any marketing role, it would be about identifying the customers and then using the right tools to let them know about Health City Cayman

He also said he is pleased to join the team as medical tourism will become Cayman’s third economic pillar.

“I want to be at the start of it all,” he said. ”I am sold on Dr Shetty’s vision. I think the model for transformation in health care in the west is going to begin here. I will make sure the world knows about Health City Cayman.”

Also on Wednesday 04 December 2013, Project Director Gene Thompson announced that Judy-Ann Ebanks will be Head of Human Resources for Health City Cayman Islands.  We are thrilled to have Ms Ebanks’ on-board and look forward to her expertise in creating our workforce for Health City.

Thompson also said getting patients to Health City Cayman Islands would not be easy to begin with.

Initially patients will be coming from the Caribbean, he said. However, with few direct flights between Cayman and other islands in the region, getting the patients here will prove challenging. The team is in talks with Cayman Airways, other airlines including BlueSky and Cayman’s latest airline, Exec Jets, as well as government, but in the beginning travel will be “a huge challenge”, he added.

Thompson said the hospital would not see large numbers in the first few weeks but within four to five months there would be a much higher flow of patients from around the [Caribbean] region at the facility.

“There are many people in the Caribbean without access to healthcare in the region,” he said, “and the group has already identified blocks of patients that are in dire need of affordable healthcare.”

Health City is the brainchild of world-renowned Indian heart surgeon, Dr Devi Shetty, who will be providing 100 children from around the Caribbean with free heart surgery when the facility opens next year, Thompson said.

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Shomari Scott

Others – Work progress up to Nov 2013