The North Panama Regional Hospital will Cost $60 Million to Build
An Artists rendition of the North Panama Regional Hospital is pictured below.
This Thursday, the Municipality of Panama and the Ministry of Health (Minsa) signed an agreement for the construction of the Panama North Regional Hospital, a project that will benefit more than 600,000 residents of the northern area of the city. Under the agreement, the mayor’s office is transferring a 6.7-hectare plot of land where the new hospital will be built. The municipality acquired this land in 2014, but it lacked a defined purpose until the current administration. According to Health Minister Fernando Boyd, the hospital’s construction represents an investment of $60 million and will have 170 beds.
The bidding process is expected to take place within the next six months, and construction work is expected to last approximately 24 months. Boyd Galindo emphasized that the population of North Panama has been waiting a long time for the construction of this hospital. “The hospital that will be built here has been long desired by the communities in this sector of the province of Panama, who for years have had to travel long distances, often enduring endless traffic jams or transfers of public transport to have access to health services, whether at the San Miguel Arcángel Hospital, the Santo Tomás Hospital or the Metropolitan Hospital Complex of the Social Security Fund,” said Minister Boyd Galindo in his speech at the signing of the agreement.
For his part, Mizrachi emphasized that this action reflects a responsible and humane vision of public administration. “For years, many administrations kept land unused, while communities continued to wait for solutions. Today we are giving a real purpose to a municipal plot of land: the health of our people,” he said. The construction of this hospital in North Panama will bring medical services closer to one of the areas with the highest population growth in the capital district.
