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Since he took up office, we've been trying to get an interview with him about how his management will move the hospital into the future. Today, we finally got a chance, when we caught him at another event. Here's what he told us:

Dr. (Mr.) Adrian Coye - CEO, KHMH
"I applied for the position with the belief that I can help chart the hospital into a direction of safety and to prepare for the future for Belizeans. We really need to have and deserve as Belizeans an excellent healthcare facility and Karl Heusner has a very important role as a national institution. So I would like that it is an era of great professionalism and that we get value for money and accountability for everything that we` do because in the end the majority of our funding is public purse related, so we want to really go head on into the future with a very strong team and also to make the best for our people. My role is to help with the right team to overcome all the other areas that we have and that is a big challenge. That's not going to happen overnight. That is something that we have to have the dedication and commitment and the support and it's not only from the government of Belize, really it's from our people. There is no reason why Belizeans should be accepting substandard care, not in this day and age. We have connectivity with how medicine is practice or should be practice. We have well trained physicians, nurses, but we have the challenges in term of constant pressures from the fact that we have I think a facility that should be much bigger by now base on our population growth. We are managing and having to manage more complex things, so the dynamics of health is an evolving thing, it's not static - you can't measure what 10 years or even 5 years ago was done."

Dr. Coye took over from Dr. Gary Longsworth, after edging out Dr. Lisa Johnson for the post. Dr. Johnson is now the Director of Medical Services at the KHMH.