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Like many other private hospitals, the
Rodney Surgical Centre was originally
established to serve a need within the
community, a need for reliable, imme-
diate, and easy access to surgical ser-
vices. Previously, residents had to trav-
el an hour either way to access public
and private hospitals, a fact which is
simply not convenient in today’s busy
world. Then, in October 2009, a few lo-
cal businessmen opened the centre’s
doors and filled the void.
Today, the Rodney Surgical Cen-
tre has two state-of-the-art operating
rooms, which includes an endoscopy
room and a procedure room. Further-
more, there are additional specialist
consulting rooms, six post anaesthet-
ic care beds, and a second-stage re-
covery area. As such, the centre offers
a wide range of specialist services in
many surgical services including or-
thopaedics, ophthalmology, gener-
al surgery, oral maxillofacial surgery
skin lesion removal (including mela-
noma) and gastroenterology. In total,
the centre has the services of 20 Sur-
gical Specialists with a lot of flexibility
for part-time staff who wish to balance
their work and home lives.
Innovating in medicine
Aside from traditional treatments, the
centre is also highly innovative in some
areas of medicine. Mr. David Crabb, for
instance, one of the centre’s plastic
surgeons, trained under Dr. Roger K.
Khouri who has developed a minimal-