These are the Clinical Hospital, Surgical Hospital and the Critical Patient Care Center.

The fourth phase of the City of Health was delivered this Friday to the Social Security Fund (CSS).

These are the Clinical Hospital, Surgical Hospital and the Critical Patient Care Center, which are within 80,000 square meters.

Each of the infrastructures is part of the central service block that will have a disposal of 25 operating rooms and 72 intensive care rooms.

In addition to a building with areas for external consultation with 220 medical offices for patient care.

Among the services that will be provided are magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine equipment, conventional ultrasound, x-rays, among others.

They are dignified facilities and properly equipped with technology to be able to solve the health problems of the highest complexity,” said the general director of the CSS, Enrique Lau Cortés.

The Institute of Genetics and Genomics, which will enhance the transplant laboratory, was another of the infrastructures delivered.

For Lau Cortés, this Institute will facilitate Panama’s ability to create and generate new knowledge in science.”

Medicine and science are very high in Panama, but we have traditionally been consumers of knowledge that is generated in other latitudes and languages, now it is our turn,” he stressed.

The work that is delivered today, Friday, December 16, represents above 92% of advances in the City of Health.

It was delivered two months in advance, since it was scheduled for February 3, 2023,” said the general director of the CSS.

Eugelio Robles, Project Manager of the City of Health, said that today about 74,000 square meters of construction were delivered, of the 226,000 square meters that comprise the complete work.

He said that in the phases that have been delivered between July and August there

the Maternal, highly complex neonatal center, the hotel for patients and the Institute of Research, Innovation and Knowledge Management.