Cayman Brac To Get Recompression Chamber

Diving related illnesses in Cayman Brac will soon be quicker and easier to treat when a recompression chamber should become operational on the island.
The recompression chamber was brought onto Cayman Brac by Cayman Hyperbaric Services in November 2006. It has however taken until now for the company to build a facility to house the chamber and prepare it for commissioning.
Cayman Hyperbaric Services has had an extension built onto the east end of the Faith Hospital in Cayman Brac to house the hyperbaric unit.
The chamber is a two–lock multi–place chamber, a smaller version of the one operating at the George Town Hospital on Grand Cayman. That chamber is also run by Cayman Hyperbaric Services.
It is hoped that patients can be taken there by 1 January.