XENIA LUSSICH OBES – DEPUTY DIRECTOR, REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF COLONIA, URUGUAY INFRASTRUCTURE
Management of a cross border health project
The purpose of this article is to share the management experience of an interinstitutional and international health project, which was developed in the border towns of Uruguay and Brazil. The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) managed the project, which focused on strengthening the health system in Uruguay, with an emphasis on HIV and AIDS and prioritising localities with less than 5000 inhabitants.
View of a healthcare facility annexed to existing hospital in Lascano, Rocha. Right: The waiting area.
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational agency of the United Nations (UN) that supports its partners in the implementation of humanitarian, development and peace building projects throughout the world. UNOPS helps the UN and its partners to promote peace and security through humanitarian and development solutions. Its mission is to help people build better lives and for countries to achieve peace and sustainable development. The services provided include
infrastructure, project management, procurement, financial management and human resources, which enable UNOPS partners to supplement their own capabilities, improve speed, reduce risk, boost cost effectiveness and increase quality. In Latin America and the
Caribbean, UNOPS has offices and is involved in projects in Argentina, Brazil, the English speaking Caribbean, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The Uruguayan Agency for
International Cooperation (AUCI) signed a memorandum of agreement with UNOPS in December 2011, allowing
Xenia Lussich Obes
Xenia Lussich Obes is a Uruguayan architect who graduated from UDELAR. She has a post graduate degree in Physical Resource Planning for Health (2012) from the Argentine
Association of Architecture and Hospital Engineering (AADAIH) - University of Lanús and Hospital Engineering II (2018) at
AADAIH - IFHE from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been deputy director of the Regional Hospital of Colonia in Uruguay since 2014 and was technical assistant for the Trilateral Project Germany - Brazil - Uruguay. The preparation of this article was supported by the technical team at UNOPS Uruguay.
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continuous communication regarding projects in which UNOPS participates as an associate with public entities. In October 2012, UNOPS and the State Health Services Administration (ASSE), the public provider of healthcare, signed a framework agreement and in March 2013 another legal agreement was signed focusing on the support to be provided by UNOPS in relation to the procurement and construction of an 11,000 m2
hospital in
Colonia in the south west of the country. Subsequently UNOPS assumed the role of executing agency of the Germany – Brazil – Uruguay Trilateral Project and an agreement was signed in January 2015.
A national system The trilateral project for the strengthening of the Integrated National Health System (SNIS) of Uruguay, which focused on the treatment of HIV and AIDS and prioritised communities with less than 5000 inhabitants, involved the participation of
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