New Amsterdam Public Hospital

Hospital in Guyana

Hospital in New Amsterdam, Guyana

6°15′18″N 57°30′48″W / 6.25500°N 57.51326°W / 6.25500; -57.51326OrganisationFundingGovernment hospitalTypeGeneralServicesBeds272^[1]HistoryOpened1885LinksListsHospitals in Guyana

New Amsterdam Public Hospital in New Amsterdam, Guyana, is the country's biggest hospital after Georgetown Public Hospital. It's old building is one of the two surviving buildings designed by Cesar Castellani, an architect employed in the Public Works Department of British Guiana.

Construction commenced in late 1881 with funds provided to the Public Works Department by the colonial administration. The hospital was built in stages. The central pavilion was completed in 1881. The hospital was almost complete in 1884, and was occupied in 1885. It was described as a “timber architectural masterpiece”.^[2] The building was later declared unfit to work and left abandoned. It slowly collapsed due to vandalism and deterioration.^[2] Old location: 6°14′28″N 57°31′18″W / 6.2412°N 57.5217°W / 6.2412; -57.5217

In 1893, the hospital had 150 beds, four sick wards (one designated for females) each with 24 beds with a window between each bed.^[3]

The hospital moved to a new location in 2005.^[4]

References

^ "The Electives". Electives. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b Guyana Times International
^ Aicken, David (August 2001). "From Plantation Medicine to Public Health: The State and Medicine in British Guiana 1838 - 1914" (PDF). University College London. p. 53. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
^ "Old New Amsterdam hospital building to be a heritage site". Guyana Chronicle. Retrieved 22 August 2020.