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The preliminary construction schedule has been announced for the Orotina-San Mateo and La Fortuna de San Carlos health centers in Costa Rica, two projects that will launch a US$700mn package to improve the country’s healthcare and pension systems.
Social security fund CCSS formed a trust with Banco de Costa Rica to carry out 53 healthcare infrastructure projects over the next nine years. Construction of the first two is set to begin in the second half of 2022 with capex of approximately 16.4bn colonos (US$26.3mn).
Both facilities are expected to include emergency room services, pharmacies, dentistry, family medicine and nutritional clinics, according to local paper La Nación. Together, they will provide health services for 66,000 people.
Constructora Volio y Trejos is building the Orotina-San Mateo center. Constructora Navarro y Avilés will construct the center in La Fortuna.
They mark the start of the two-phase project. The first phase involves the construction of 30 health centers, seven CCSS branches and one regional branch office. The second features 11 CCSS branches, three regional branch offices and a logistics center.
The works will be carried out in Aguas Zarcas, Cóbano, Liberia, Nicoya, Pérez Zeledón, Heredia-Cubujuquí, Bagaces, Acosta, Buenos Aires, Talamanca and Quepos, among others.
In a press conference, CCSS infrastructure and technology manager Jorge Granados said the fund is working on hundreds of other projects in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. |
