Health Minister says

MINISTER of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, over the weekend, revealed that contractors have gone a long way in developing the new paediatric hospital.
Dr. Anthony made this disclosure while delivering remarks at the two-day neonatal conference which was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.
At the time, the Health Minister was speaking on the challenges that the health system is currently experiencing in relation to conducting paediatric cardiac surgery.
While he noted that as it is now they are not able to do some of the surgeries immediately, the new facilities will cater for this.

“The new facilities will be able to do that because we will have a specialised suite set aside for paediatric cardiac surgery,” he said.
Added to this, he said that they would have to train a team of persons to be able to manage these patients. Against this backdrop, he said that there are many other things that will be in that hospital including the first MRI for the public sector.

To this end, he went on to add: “And we have got a far way in developing that hospital… you will see that construction has started; we just started doing the piling and as I said by 2025 this should be completed.”

Previously, it was stated that the facility would have 256 beds, cover 24,000 square meters and have an imaging suite that will include CT scans and rays along with a modern laboratory. The paediatric and maternal hospital is expected to cost $12.4 billion.