Memorial Hospital in the Spring of 1998 are set to be finalised this week.

Marc Kaiser, the hyperbaric medical facility operator at Miami, Florida's Mercy Hospital, met with KEMH officials.

KEMH Emergency Department director Ed Schultz said Mr. Kaiser had served for many years as a hyperbaric chamber technical consultant for the Divers Alert Network, a diving medical organisation based at Duke University.

"In the course of that work Mr. Kaiser has surveyed, designed and installed recompression facilities throughout the United States and the Caribbean.

"He also heads the corporation which is supplying KEMH with their new state-of-the-art facility.'' The new chamber will be able to accommodate up to six patients at a time. It will be suitable for hyperbaric wound care as well as the treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning and diving accidents.

The chamber will be located on the ground floor of the new surgical wing of the hospital.

Bermuda Recompression Facility members are continuing to raise funds for the project and people looking to make a donation can contact Brian Billings c/o The Bermuda Recompression Facility Fund, 19 Queen Street, Hamilton.