Contract signed for Larnaca hospital

COMMUNICATIONS minister Efthymios Flourentzos yesterday signed a €20m contract for the expansion of Larnaca general hospital using the design-build-maintain method. 

According to Flourentzos, the contract worth €20m plus VAT provides that the contractor must design and construct a new four-floor building in the hospital grounds within the next three years, which will have the capacity to have another four floors added on in the future. The contractor also has to provide maintenance for the first 12 years of the building. 

The new building will have two underground floors and two over ground, and will be constructed on the site where the hospital canteen currently stands near the entrance to the complex.

The building will contain offices, outpatient clinics, and electromechanical installations, among other things, and will be connected to the main hospital building through two closed bridges.   

Flourentzos said the aim was to design the building in a way so that it could function as a university hospital, to be utilised by the medical school that the University of Cyprus is currently in the process of setting up. 

The original Larnaca general hospital was first opened in October 1984, built on land donated by the Saint George Committee and funds provided by the people of the United States of America.

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