A building that once had dirty, abandoned walls and an interior full of trees and vegetation has been transformed into a medical center with 172 inpatient beds, 3 operating rooms, and 27 medical offices, putting an end to the great sacrifices residents of the area had to endure for years by traveling to the district of David for hospital care.
This floor houses the chapel or prayer room, medical residence, and specialty offices.
"I am happy because yesterday the Bugaba hospital was inaugurated," the quote reads.
The Bugaba hospital had been abandoned for 13 years; with its inauguration, health and prevention services will be strengthened, directly benefiting more than 170,000 Chiricanos.
Former President Ricardo Martinelli advocates for an investigation into the extra 70 million dollars the Bugaba hospital ended up costing, which was delivered this week.
The completion of this hospital gives hope to the local population. "It would be good to investigate," he highlighted.
Martinelli recalled that he had put the project out to bid during his government, but for unknown reasons, it was suspended in 2015 and was not resumed during the Laurentino Cortizo administration either.
In this sense, Martinelli believes that a law must be reintroduced to punish these situations, such as the one Cortizo vetoed in the previous government.
For the former head of state, this extra amount represents a robbery and assault on the treasury due to the wasting of valuable state resources.
The bad thing is that it cost us 70 million more, and there was a pandemic in which many lives could have been saved.
Martinelli said that he will submit the project for debate with the deputies of the "Realizing Goals" bench in order to have a regulation that guarantees the full weight of the law for these irresponsible individuals.
In October 2020, then-President Cortizo vetoed the initiative that added provisions to the penal code, relating to the paralysis and deterioration of public works.
It will also have a neonatology unit, intensive care unit, surgical area, and gynecology-obstetrics area with 3 modular operating rooms and 2 modular delivery rooms.
Upper floor: pediatric hospitalization, internal medicine, gynecology-obstetrics, and surgery.
It has 5 years of maintenance.
The new building that will house the chemotherapy and hemodialysis services will have 15 chairs for hemodialysis treatment and 15 chairs for chemotherapy, both with their complementary areas.
