Nine Community Wellness Centres added to Financing Services in Saint Lucia

The Ministry of Health Wellness and Elderly Affairs of Saint Lucia has implemented the Performance-Based Financing (PBF) Pilot Program and recently added nine new wellness Centres to the program.

28th of June 2024

The Ministry of Health Wellness and Elderly Affairs of Saint Lucia, with the emerging health cases related to Diabetes and Hypertension, has implemented the Performance-Based Financing (PBF) Pilot Program. Recently the Ministry has added nine new Health Centres to the pre-existing ones, which in turn will help with increased amount and accessibility of health services being provided to the citizens.

This Pilot program provides treatment and screening services for the concerned health issues. This will help the non-diabetic and non-hypertensive receive screening services and risk assessment at ZERO COST. While the people with diabetes and hypertension will be benefitted as they receive FREE lab tests. This service is only excessive to people 18 years or older.

The PBF services are available over the past few months at the several Wellness Centres namely- Jacmel Wellness Centre, Richfond Wellness Centre, Desruisseaux Wellness Centre, La Fargue Wellness Centre, La Croix Maingot Wellness Centre, Dennery Hospital, Mon Repos Wellness Centre and Soufriere Hospital. But, as of June 17, the PBF services are available at nine additional centres.

The Nine Wellness Centres that were recently added to the list include Delcer Wellness Centre, Micoud Wellness Centre, Vanard Wellness Centre, Canaries Wellness Centre, Ti-Rocher Micoud Wellness Centre, Anse La Raye Wellness Centre, Fond St. Jacques Wellness Centre, Etangs Wellness Centre and Mongouge Wellness Centre.

The Saint Lucian Ministry of Health Wellness and Elderly Affairs is taking steps to encourage the natives of areas aligned with the mentioned Wellness Centres to go visit and take up the benefits of health services as mentioned, available on Monday to Friday with the timing 8am to 4pm.

The health centres are sectioned into 4 regions. The regional schedule for the Diabetic and Hypertensive clinics as per the PBF program is mentioned below-