20 Society
A healthy move
The city’s second public hospital is set to rise
on a prime site near the Cotai Strip in 2011
T
he construction of Macau’s pressed satisfaction about the choice of cover in the future.
long-awaited second public the site, but said the expectation is that “It is necessary to remember the ne-
hospital will begin in the sec- the government will create “more than cessity of restructuring careers to create
ond half of 2011 near the Cotai Strip. a hospital”. attractive conditions for doctors to want
The 500-bed facility should be ready “I hope it will be a university hospi- to come and work in Macau,” he added.
for use in 2014, the government says. tal, for this would be an important step The health director guaranteed that
The first phase of the new hospi- in the direction of creating a course in the new hospital “will allow for a wider
tal on a 50,000 square-metre area be- Medicine in the territory, as well as be- range of training and investigation and
tween Taipa and Coloane Islands, has ing able to offer differentiated care,” he will systematically proceed to train
a MOP400 million budget and will in- pointed out. health professionals, doctors, nurses and
clude a 100-bed accident and emergency Évora says it will be necessary to technicians”.
building, according to Health Services relocate some specialised units to the
Bureau director, Lei Chin Ion. new public hospital, which aren’t cur- Happy with heliport
The director added that the hospital rently working to their full potential at Évora said the heliport is a “very im-
will house a Centre for Blood Transfu- the Count St. Januário Hospital. portant” addition because at present pa-
sions. These include physical and reha- tients in need of urgent transfer to Hong
bilitation medicine as well as cardiology Kong must be taken by sea.
Many facilities which, he stresses, “treats the most com- The Executive has already reserved
It will also have a contingency centre, mon cause of death in the territory and two other land lots of 40,000 square
an X-ray and scanning treatment centre, has allocated to it one of the smallest ar- metres for expansion to meet new needs
a laboratory for checking medication, a eas at the hospital”. over the next 20 years.
public health laboratory, a hospital cen- The first phase of what will be-
tre, a recovery hospital, a training and Doctor training vital come Macau’s third health unit will be
investigation centre, and a heliport. Evora says the training of doctors and concluded within Chief Executive Chui
Mário Évora, clinical director of the specialists takes time and will be a Sai On’s first term, as this is one of his
Count St. Januário Hospital Centre, ex- vital component of the city’s medical stated priorities.
March 2010
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