It will have a plot of land with an area of 32,000 square meters, of which 24,000 will be used for the construction of the project.
SANTIAGO – The heart of Santiago never sleeps and adds another important building to its list of new projects. A private hospital complex with two buildings, one six stories and the other four, will be built in this main city of the Cibao region.
The Specialized Hospital of Advanced Medicine (HEMA) will be built with an estimated investment of 45 million dollars, at kilometer 8.5 of the Duarte highway, on the way out towards Santo Domingo.
President Luis Abinader will soon break ground on the project, which will include doctors and other professionals among its investors. It will house 80 modular consulting rooms, operating theaters, a primary care center, and specialized medical areas.
The construction of the building will be carried out by GRUCOMAR, according to the Resumen de Salud portal, the first created in the country, specializing in health issues.
Details of the work
It will occupy a 32,000-square-meter plot of land, of which 24,000 square meters will be dedicated to construction. It will have 480 parking spaces. It will be equipped to serve patients from the Cibao region and other areas of the country.
It will have nine operating rooms, including one equipped with robotics, two for hemodialysis, two smart ones with voice commands and another for neurosurgery, as well as an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for adults, pediatrics and neonates.
It will have an oncology center, a dialysis unit and a radiotherapy unit, and an emergency department with a specialized trauma care area.
Other areas of the project will include a wellness center, sports medicine, and cardiology, pulmonology, and urology units, as well as a nutrition center. It will also include an imaging unit, clinical laboratory, pathology department, and mental health area.
The services will be at a tertiary level. It will benefit the region by creating 350,000 direct jobs and 1,500 indirect jobs.
The project developers are also considering a foundation to support the care of low-income patients.
