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The Minister of Public Works Gabriel Katopodis passed through Miramar and confirmed the provision of $1,750,000,000 to begin the first stage of the ambitious health project. The bidding process begins to build the new Miramar hospital The mayor of General Alvarado, Sebastián Ianantuony, received the Minister of Public Works of the Nation, Gabriel Katopodis, in Miramar, with whom he toured the area of ??40th Avenue and 13th Street, where the new health center in the La Palma neighborhood is built, a infrastructure that in the future will be annexed to the new hospital that the districts main city will have, projected in that same space located next to the former railway station. The future new Miramar hospital, without objections During his visit, Katopodis presented Ianantuony with the report of no objections to the new hospital project, which led the commune authorities to confirm that next Monday, October 2, the bidding process for the ambitious health project will formally begin. . The head of the National Public Works portfolio expressed that the process of opposition to the project has been completed without objections in this regard, also confirming that the budget is allocated to advance the generation of this new hospital, designed with health needs in mind. public for the following decades. “With this tender, the advance payment will arrive for the beginning of the work,” confirmed Katopodis, giving free rein from the administrative side to the commune. “This is a big project, which had its comings and goings; We were able to propose it in stages, so that very soon we could have this beautiful property under construction,” said the Alberto Fernández official. The work of the health center that will later be annexed to the future hospital. The work of the health center that will later be annexed to the future hospital. Read also General Alvarado This is what the new Miramar subzonal hospital will look like Initial budget of $1,750,000,000 When describing the scope of the work, Katopodis explained that “the budget for this first stage, which is 2000 m2, is $1,750,000,000 (one thousand seven hundred and fifty million pesos), and the important thing is that we are ensuring that budget , faced with doubts about whether the resources would be available to achieve it; Well, with this procedure, Sebastián and General Alvarado ensure that they already have the resources for this first stage,” he stated. According to the Minister of Public Works, the complete work will cost around 2.5 billion pesos. Along these lines, Katopodis highlighted: “The municipality has worked around the clock to have the project, with all the requirements that a hospital of these characteristics needs today. It is a work for the next 30 years; The health team thought about a hospital and the different services that Miramar will need now, in the next 10, 12 and 15 months but also in the next 30 years, the official reiterated. “It is not that we are making a small room, nor are we adding 20 beds to the old hospital: it is a new building, with a projection that will allow the city to have the best care, the best hospital in the region for the next three decades” , celebrated the minister to conclude. In turn, Ianantuony explained that “technical non-objection is the last technical step we need to be able to start the tender” and valued the importance of the future work: “We have a hospital that is already more than 60 years old; It was thought when we had 10 thousand inhabitants for a population of 25 thousand, and now we are practically double that,” he highlighted. “Currently the health system is sustained thanks to health personnel, who have a loving dedication to their neighbors, but today the infrastructure is not enough. The last thing that was done was the dialysis center, which is our great pride; that Germán (Di Cesare) started it, that we were able to finish it, and today it is providing services not only to the residents of the town, but we are also receiving services from other districts,” said Ianantuony. “Our hospital system will be divided into two parts: Marino Cassano, and Pecastaing (which will be moved to Caps La Palma). The first stage of the new hospital will allow us to replace the capacity of the Marino Cassano: we will be able to have emergencies, operating rooms, an imaging center, therapy. As Katopodis said, this is planned in various stages: we plan to do two or three more to be able to double the bed capacity, which is what the study we did when we started told us in this case, that we need to reach a hospital of 90 beds, which is the profile of the next 30 years for the General Alvarado district,” the mayor explained. To conclude, Ianantuony confirmed that after launching the tender next week, it is expected that “in approximately 45 days, construction of the work will begin.” |