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Saturday, August 10, 2024
Temeswar – After the elected chairman of the Timișoara County Council, Alfred Simonis, announced two weeks ago that the building permit for the future regional oncology institute in Timișoara had been issued, he announced in the middle of last week that the tender to identify a company that will take on the project had also been launched. The construction of the new hospital will be financed with European funds from the National Program for Reconstruction and Resilience (PNRR) and is set to be the largest investment in the public health system outside Bucharest. “Two months ago we claimed that the ruins on Torontal Street would be history, and today we are launching the tender to find a company to build the oncology institute. It was a gigantic task to gather all the necessary documentation and obtain all the necessary permits, but in the end we managed it,” wrote the elected chairman of the County Council, Alfred Simonis, who will take up his new post in October, on his Facebook page. The oncology institute will be built at the exit to Cenad on an area of 5.5 hectares belonging to the Ministry of Health. The construction of a municipal hospital began on this site in 1994, but the project was abandoned after part of the building was constructed. The unfinished building was dubbed a “phantom hospital” in the media. According to the project, the future regional oncology institute in Timisoara will have 250 beds and will include an integrated specialist outpatient clinic with 26 medical offices for each specialty, as well as treatment rooms. The total value of the project is the equivalent of more than 250 million euros. PNRR funding covers 80 percent of the total cost.
