July 2008
Every time we visit the site we are impressed at how far it has progressed since our last visit. In the July photographs, you can see the two operating theatres are coming along very well. Each theatre has dedicated fully protected pre-op and recovery areas. The mechanisms for the theatre machinery are beginning to be put in place and you can now visualise the finished unit much more clearly. Close by is the Intensive Care Unit which looks very near to completion. The boxes in
The Imaging Unit building also looks much nearer to completion now that the boxes are fully finished. All that is missing is the imaging machinery and the building’s finishing touches and furnishings.
The completed areas include the main barn format and individual day boxes, the roads and car parking areas surrounding the complex, the hay barn, machinery barns, loading ramps and muck heap. The farriery unit just needs the farrier and his kit!
A couple of new additions put into construction since June are the isolation boxes which you can see in the picture showing 4 individual boxes across a paddock area. These will allow for complete isolation of patients and will enable staff to maintain a full infection management programme. The other addition is shown by the photo which currently looks rather like a pile of rubble! This is the beginnings of a full 20m x 40m ménage which will allow staff to lunge or exercise horses in a safe environment.
Hopefully when we return in a couple of weeks, we will see these two new additions in a fully functional state as we near the final push towards our moving-in date.