Ciudad Juarez.- The Regional General Hospital 02 of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) will begin partial operations starting tomorrow, according to the official calendar presented to the Citizen Council for monitoring the work, and will complete its equipment by September 30.
For example, the calendar included in the Status Report on the restructuring, completion and expansion of the Regional General Hospital, presented to the Citizen Council of the New IMSS Hospital, since this Monday the complex will be ready to receive the first outpatient consultationswith the operation of 10 consulting roomspharmacy, imaging, laboratory, medical information and clinical archive area, dining room, training classroom and maintenance cubicles.
Work will continue in other parts of the building.
Currently, the physical progress of the work is 84.2 percent; however, there are already some areas with which the operation of the medical service will begin on site.
Meanwhile, work will continue in other parts of the building, such as in building sections B and C on the east side, where finishing work is being carried out on the west side; the structure for access covers on the ambulance arrival platform is also being placed and the emergency access ramp is being painted.
At the same time, in the access area, the gates of the main entrance gate are being completed; work is being done on the exterior gardening and painting of the curbs.
Construction work is also being carried out in body B on the ground floor of the building. Finishing work continues in different areas; reticular ceilings are being painted in the main entrance hall, pharmacy area and waiting room in the consulting rooms; electrical cladding and signage. In the laboratory area, finishing, ceilings and windows continue. In the adult observation area, wooden ceilings and doors are being installed and electrical cladding is being done. In the magnetic resonance area, work is being done on placing copper sheets on walls and covering the Faraday cage and the installation of the resonator has begun.
In addition, the report indicates that since June 20, the installation of the manoplanar arch hagiograph in the haemodynamics room is pending, and in the operating rooms, work is being done on installing a ceiling and metal frames on doors.
In process of procedures before the Municipality and the State
In addition, there are still procedures in process before different municipal and state government bodies.
Such is the case of the donation of land to Indabin for the construction of the parking lot; progress of the project of the Municipal Road Safety Coordination for the work on roads bordering the hospital and its completion date and the request to the Municipal Water and Sanitation Board (JMAS) on the entry of the file for the donation of 400 square meters for the drilling of a well.
The donation process of 6,320 square meters adjacent to the IMSS property for the construction of an Oncology Center is also continuing. This center, explains the report on the restructuring, completion and expansion of the hospital, will contribute to the development and direct benefit of the population entitled to the hospital in this town and its area of influence.
It remained unfinished since 2016
According to the newspaper archive, the construction work on what was originally announced as a specialty hospital and an oncology unit began in December 2014 during the administration of former Governor César Duarte, but remained unfinished since at least 2016. It was not until September 2022 when construction of the hospital resumed, after more than six years of abandonment of the property.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced in August 2018, when he was elected, that his government would complete the work. During the time the building was abandoned, various damages occurred, such as vandalism, broken glass, window theft, and some sheets of Alucobond and cladding had fallen from the façade of the building.
In October 2022, the Citizen Committee for Monitoring the Construction of the General Hospital Zone in Ciudad Juárez was integrated to follow up on each of the stages of this work “which fulfills the presidential promise offered to the people of Juárez to strengthen the health of the inhabitants of the area,” said at the time the general director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, in the company of the governor of Chihuahua, María Eugenia Campos Galván, and the municipal president of Ciudad Juárez, Cruz Pérez Cuellar.
494 people are working on the project and it is being carried out by the contractor company Engineering and Project Control SA de CV in joint participation with Arkitectura para la Salud SA de CV. The supervision of the work is being carried out by the company Development Technology and Planning SA de CV.
The investment in the work is two billion 27 million 728 thousand 965 pesos, while the investment in the equipment is one billion 372 million 454 thousand 942 pesos.
Deadlines
According to the planned schedule, the deadline for completing the emergency area, hospital administration, bathrooms and changing rooms, three operating rooms, space to store clean material, hospitalization on the second floor, and the areas of pathological anatomy, education and occupational health was set for August 30.
By September 10, there will be postoperative recovery areas, eight more operating rooms, outpatient surgery, outpatient recovery and an endoscopy area. On September 20, there will be 26 consulting rooms for specialists.
The last part will be on September 30, with the intensive care unit, pediatric hospitalization, tocosurgery, burns and chemotherapy unit and hemodialysis area.
Once complete, the hospital will have 160 beds and will be able to benefit 315,475 beneficiaries from the municipalities of the region, in addition to Nuevo Casas Grandes.
It will have 31 specialties and 21 care services, including medical oncology, haemodynamics, neurology, allergies and immunology, cardiology, genetics, gastropediatrics, paediatric endocrinology, medical paediatrics, pain clinic, paediatric oncology, haematology, radiotherapy, rheumatology, geriatrics, otorhinolaryngology, interventional cardiology, surgical oncology, urology, nephrology, internal medicine, gastroenterology, angiology, transplants, among others.
Currently, there are a total of 861 pieces of equipment, including high-impact medical equipment that supports the operation and safety of hospitalized patients, including: magnetic resonance imaging, 64-slice CT, digital mammography with stereotaxy, monoplanar angiograph, digital radiology and fluoroscopic unit with remote control, ultrasonic aspirator, ultrasound, orthopantomograph, sterilizers, surgical laser, portable radiology units, advanced surgical tables, among others.
The unit will have 2,742 workers, of which 513 are specialists, 1,153 are nurses and 1,076 are administrative and paramedics. In addition, it will provide care to 432,000 beneficiaries, who will be referred from the different Family Medicine Units, including those in Casas Grandes and Nuevo Casas Grandes.
#IMSS #hospital #opens #tomorrow
