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Saturday, February 22, 2025

St. Lucian company awarded multi-million dollar contract to build hospital

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25 days ago
20250127
Premier Reuben Meade addressing the contract ceremony for the new hospital project in Montserrat

Premier Reuben Meade addressing the contract ceremony for the new hospital project in Montserrat

The Montser­rat gov­ern­ment says it has signed a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar con­tract with a St. Lu­cia-based con­struc­tion com­pa­ny to build the third phase of the New Na­tion­al Hos­pi­tal of Montser­rat project.

A state­ment by the Min­istry of Health and So­cial Ser­vices said the EC$102.8 mil­lion (One EC dol­lar=US$0.37 cents) con­tract had been signed with Con­struc­tion & In­dus­tri­al Equip­ment (CIE) and “ marks the be­gin­ning of the con­struc­tion of a 75,000 plus square foot, state-of-the-art health­care fa­cil­i­ty that will pro­vide world-class ser­vices to the peo­ple of Montser­rat”.

It said that CIE is set to be­gin work in April 2025, fol­low­ing an ini­tial mo­bi­liza­tion phase start­ing in March this year.

Ac­cord­ing to the min­istry, the project is slat­ed for com­ple­tion with­in two years and the  New Na­tion­al Hos­pi­tal will fea­ture a com­pre­hen­sive range of ser­vices, in­clud­ing a di­ag­nos­tics and treat­ment cen­ter, phar­ma­cy, cater­ing and laun­dry fa­cil­i­ties, ster­il­iza­tion ar­eas, pa­tient wards, birthing cen­ter, op­er­at­ing the­ater, lab­o­ra­to­ry among oth­er fa­cil­i­ties “all of which are de­signed to de­liv­er high-qual­i­ty health­care and en­sure pa­tients have ac­cess to the lat­est tech­nol­o­gy for di­ag­nos­ing and treat­ing var­i­ous con­di­tions”.

The Min­istry of Health and So­cial Ser­vices said that while every ef­fort will be made to min­i­mize dis­rup­tions to hos­pi­tal ac­tiv­i­ties “cer­tain phas­es of con­struc­tion may re­quire tem­po­rary ad­just­ments”.

BRADES, Montser­rat, Jan 27, CMC

CMC/ag/ir/2025


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