Chetumal, Q.R. — Governor Mara Lezama says the new ISSSTE General Hospital in Chetumal is nearing the halfway mark. Lezama visited the construction site Friday, noting a 42 percent completion rate.
She says the new hospital will expand bed capacity from 30 to 90 and for the benefit of more than 200,000 area residents.
Accompanied by Antonio Francisco Gabino, resident engineer, Governor Lezama toured the site Friday. According to Gabino, the new hospital will cover an area of 18,000 square meters.
The new hospital is actually the conversion of an old city clinic. The expansion and conversion of the clinic into a hospital is being managed through the Director General of ISSSTE, Martí Batres.
During the tour, Governor Lezama visited the future emergency department, which will house the trauma bay. It will include outpatient services, obstetrics and gynecology, four operating rooms, a laboratory, a blood bank, and state-of-the-art imaging services with X-ray, ultrasound, mammography, MRI, CT, orthopantomography, and bone densitometry.
The first stage, which includes the ground floor, the first and second levels, is scheduled be completed in the first days of January 2027. Immediately afterward, the second stage of the hospital will start with construction of the third and fourth levels.
She said the new facility will expand healthcare capacity, reduce transfers, and save lives. It will benefit more than 200,000 people living in Othón P. Blanco, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Bacalar, and José María Morelos.
