Malnutrition Ward is complete !!!

It may be by the skin of my teeth as usual, but …. We made it!, Malnutrition is now officially complete.  The stores cupboard needs to be sorted out from the Play Therapy room back to the office in Malnutrition which I expect to happen tomorrow, then Sunday or Monday we can move the little patients from their temporary home in the Special Care unit into there nice new quarters. Hopefully you can’t see that the paint on the outside wall is still wet, and if any eagle eyes amongst spot that the top line is a little wavy it is because the masking tape hasn’t even been removed yet! But for all that it is FINISHED!

Meanwhile work on the rest of the lower ward continues with the floor being prepared for the laying of the first of the new tiles, the new foundations for the final piece of the wall is about to be poured and the electrician is running new cables all over the place! Ooo, It’s all getting quite exciting watching it all come together. Like any rebuild or decorating project, you have to make it worse before it can get better… but we are definitely starting to see the first glimmer of light at the end of that long, long tunnel.

Our initial costing was blown right out of the water even before a block was laid when we decided that whilst we were doing the rebuilding we would also bring the whole ward right bang up to scratch . New, much bigger windows; new floor tiles right from the main entrance down through where the demolition had to take place and a complete make over ,both inside and out, and I must say that the result is nothing less than spectacular even at this early stage, eliciting praise from every quarter! Now where did I leave that begging bowl… HaHaHa