Cancun, Q.R. — The state government has announced its plan to build a level III hospital to provide medical specialties currently not available. Some of those medical specialties include hemodialysis and burn treatment.
Governor Mara Lezama says the new up-and-coming medical towers are part of strengthening the state’s health system. She made the announcement Sunday with Alejandro Svarch, the General Director of IMSS-Bienestar.
The group involved in planning the hospital toured the land where the Cancun Tower of Specialties will be built, a project considered key to expanding specialized medical care in the state.
The project will be developed on the site and as an annex of the current General Hospital of Cancun and aims to offer more complex care services for residents who do not have social security.
Svarch stated that the Tower of Specialties will strengthen medical subspecialties and enable highly complex services as well as diagnostic support. The facility will directly benefiting more than 835,000 people without social security.
He said the new facility will provide specialty medical services to people without having to leave the state.
Governor Lezama indicated that the project is planned on a 26,000 square meter land reserve with a construction area of 15,000 square meters. The tower will consist of six levels with 36 specialties and more than 190 beds.
The medical tower will provide strategic services such as hemodialysis, care for people with burns, wound clinic and catheter management.
Alejandro Svarch explained that the new care model abandons the old isolation-based approach, giving way to comprehensive spaces with a humanistic focus. The complex will have separate areas for men, women, girls and boys, with specialists in each area.
“This is great news and a major step forward. It’s part of what we do in humanist governments: listen to people, address their suffering from all angles, considering not only the patient but also their family,” said Governor Lezama.
Other specifications such as a cost or estimated construction time were not provided.
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