It has been announcement that updates will be made to the study on supply and demand and the trust agreement in order to advance the project to build a tower for critical care facilities at the Children's Hospital in San Jose.
From a statement issued by the Costa Rican Social Security Department (CCSS):
The Costa Rican Social Security Department (CCSS) has been making preparations to make advance progress in the construction of a critical care tower at the National Children's Hospital, better known as the Tower of Hope.
The Costa Rican Social Security Department has approved funds for the construction of 14 new operating rooms at Hospital Mexico in San José.
Authorities told Crhoy.com that "... 25 months have been estimated for the implementation of the entire project, a time frame which includes a planning, design and procurement stage (11 months) and an implementation phase of approximately 14 months "
The Social Security Department is going to purchase anaesthesia machines, scanners and MRI machines between 2014 and 2018.
This was revealed in the data managed by Infrastructure Management and Technology of the Social Security Department (CCSS). The 120 anaesthesia machines will be purchased in 2014, while the scanners for hospitals Mexico, Calderon Guardia and San Juan de Dios will be acquired in 2017.
The Social Security Department will carry out renovation work on infrastructure and equipment of operating rooms, for some $14 million.
An investment of $13.8 million in the San Juan de Dios Hospital in the capital will include the renovation of the 15 operating rooms the institution has. Work will begin in April and May and should be completed within one year, said the director of the Hospital, Hilda Oreamuno.
In two weeks the country's social security agency (CCSS) will publish details of the bid criteria for the land where the hospital will be built.
The search is for a 15 hectare site or bigger close to the center of Cartago province, south east of the Costa Rica capital, San Jose.
"The terms and conditions are now finished and it just remains to get legal sign-off," the architect Gabriela Murillo Jenkins, CCSS Infrastructure Manager, told Nacion.com. At the same time CCSS is carrying out studies to determine the profile of the hospital required.