During a recent community meet-and-greet with voters in his St. Paul’s constituency, Foreign Affairs Minister E. P. Chet Greene has announced targeted infrastructure plans to expand local access to critical healthcare services, anchored by the construction of two new specialized clinics focused on eye care and dental treatment.
The development project is already in its early phases, with a core expanded primary care facility currently under construction. Greene laid out the phased roadmap for the initiative, noting that after the completion of the expanded base clinic, the next stage of work will deliver the long-awaited specialized care facilities that residents have repeatedly called for.
“We have an expanding new clinic that comes to us,” Greene shared with local residents, highlighting ongoing work to reinforce the constituency’s overall healthcare delivery network. Outlining the next steps, he emphasized that the new specialized services are designed to cut down on the need for local residents to travel outside the St. Paul area to receive routine and specialized care.
“ We will build an eye-care clinic,” Greene confirmed. He added that all necessary medical equipment for the facility has already been secured, with the goal of opening a first-class, world-standard facility that meets the full eye health needs of the local community.
To round out the expanded healthcare hub, Greene also officially confirmed separate plans for a full-service dental clinic. When completed, the two new specialized facilities, paired with the expanded primary care clinic, will form a centralized, comprehensive medical hub that serves the entire St. Paul region.
“We also intend [to build] a dental clinic. So when you have the dental clinic, what we have is a compact medical [hub], which will serve all of the people here in the St. Paul area,” he explained.
The Foreign Minister emphasized that the entire project is rooted in a core goal: making essential healthcare more accessible for local residents and strengthening community-centered care at a time when demand for local services continues to climb steadily. These new clinics are part of the governing administration’s post-election development agenda, with healthcare policy remaining a top priority for the government, according to Greene.
The announcement comes after months of ongoing resident feedback and concerns about gaps in local healthcare access. Once operational, the new facilities are projected to reduce strain on the area’s existing overstretched healthcare infrastructure and ultimately improve health outcomes for thousands of residents living in the St. Paul constituency.