The authorities health and Ministry of Housing and Buildings (Mived) assured this Tuesday that the Luis E. Aybar Health City (former Morgan) will be 100% operational by mid-2025, when the building C, which houses the Hospital Clinical Surgical, the only one of the 13 facilities that comprise it that continues under construction.
The statements occurred during a route of the Minister of Housing and Buildings, Carlos Bonilla; the Minister of Public Health, Víctor Atallah; the director of the National Health Service (SNS), Mario Lamaand the president of the Health City, José Joaquín Puellofor him building of the Maternal and Child Hospital, which was put into operation.
“Right now we have 32 operating rooms enabled, we have, between children and adults, 97 beds of intensive. There is no hospital in the country that can display that,” said Dr. Puello.
“This construction site It is completely finished, they are already using it, that is why there is patients. The building A, which has been operating for a long time, and this buildingwhich is the Maternal and Child, is already delivered as well. Consultations are being made here, tests of laboratorythe operating rooms They are working and the Emergency is open. Now the people can come here to use their services,” said Minister Bonilla.
“He building C, which is the Clinical Surgical, it is the only one building that this hospital is not yet ready and will be ready next year,” he added.
According to the engineer, the route of supervision It was because “as one delivers a project like this, things arise that we have to deal with inspectingto fix, because since it is so big, it takes a long time to realize anything that needs to be fixed.
Of the building pending, said that some floors will be prioritized, especially where the Unit of Burnedwhich currently operates at the Ney Arias Lora Hospital where it was transferred 10 years ago.
Graduated services
Dr. Lama clarified that, although the maternity hospital is already receiving patientsservices are started with certain gradualnessincluding the part pediatric which will be available in the coming weeks. This center is housed in the building B1 of the health complex.
“At the beginning you start with a certain gradualness because training is needed staff in the face of new equipment, readjustment to the systems. Have patients admitted, patients waiting for different assistance and from today (yesterday) the population can come to receive service“he commented.
In this initial stage, the hospital has a payroll of 395 people between doctorsnurses, bioanalysts and staff of service.
This Maternal and Child Hospital has a sterilizationunit of analysis, laboratoryhospitalization, images, obstetrics unit, and emergency pediatric and adults. It also has a gynecological unit and a Unit Neonatal and obstetric Intensive Care (ICU) pediatric.
Lama appreciated the opening of this maternity because it helps decongest other centers such as the Los Mina Maternity.
As for the advance in the delivery of the buildingsadded that “we have 75% opening of the four blocks that we had pending”.
“All the building from Cecanot, delivered; the query block, delivered and working; the Maternal and Child Hospital, the maternal-neonatal part is functioning and the part begins in a couple of weeks pediatric and only the block remains to be completed Clinical-Surgical,” he stated.
Minister Atallah defined the construction site as important, since it is going to be a hospital reference national, where they will be formed doctors residents and state-of-the-art equipment will be used.
