An EC$10 million investment, by the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), in collaboration with the Barbados based Maria Holder Memorial Trust, has paved the way for the historic introduction of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services here in SVG, at the Modern Medical and Diagnostic Complex (MMDC) in Georgetown, starting early 2023.
Budget 2023 has allocated an unprecedented 96.1 million dollars in healthcare, a major investment in the sector. Minister of Finance Hon. Camillo Gonsalves said it is actually 72 per cent higher than it was five years ago and 60 per cent higher than in 2013, this comes at a time when healthcare delivery and infrastructure has expanded in both scope and quality.
On Friday, 20th January, 2023, the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines signed a 6 million dollars EC loan arrangement with Demerara Bank Ltd (Guyana), for the purchase of fifty (50) pre-fab houses from Guyana.