The Government ordered technical studies to be carried out by the Baixo Alentejo Local Health Unit (ULSBA) for the expansion of the Beja hospital, revealed today the Secretary of State for Health, Ricardo Mestre.
Speaking to Lusa agency, the governor indicated that the order on the future reorganization and expansion of the José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital, in Beja, will be published on Tuesday in Diário da República (DR).
“It is an order that results from the commitment we made when we created the Open Health initiative, in July, in Alentejo”, forward, highlighting that one of the shortcomings then identified by the guardianship was the expansion of the Beja hospital building.
According to the Secretary of State for Health, This order requests ULSBA to “analyze the hospital’s current care profile” and that points “the needs that exist” in the unit for “make evolve”.
“In other words, what other valences and responses are necessary to create in that hospital, that also look at the hospital's current functional program, how the operating circuits are established and that they study the need to expand the hospital building”, enumerated.
Ricardo Mestre said that an economic assessment on the expansion of the hospital unit is also requested so that the Government can find out “the financial volume that is associated” and identification of sources of financing for the project.
“The idea is to do this work, In the next months, and that, after, decisions on concrete enlargement can be taken and under what conditions”, He stressed.
The tasks now requested from ULSBA will have to be completed by 30 June 2024 and placed in a report addressed to the member of the Government responsible for health.
For this work, according to the ruler, ULSBA will count on the collaboration of the Central Administration of the Health System and the executive management of the National Health Service, among others.
Questioned by Lusa about the value and expected dates for the project, the Secretary of State replied that this depends on the conclusions of the technical studies.
“There is a set of investments that have been made and that, now, it has to be looked at in an integrated way and the value of this financing and the construction time will result from the work that comes from this”, he added.
The expansion of the José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital has been demanded for many years by the population and party forces.
News: Lidador News/News at the Minute
