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Hospital Building Project to go to tender in June
Mr Brendan Smith, T.D., Minister of State has been informed by the Health Service Executive that the building project to provide 21 additional beds in Cavan General Hospital is expected to go to tender this June.
Minister Smith has been informed by the Health Service Executive that a planning brief has been developed for additional beds and a fourth theatre at Cavan General Hospital and that the additional 21 beds and theatre will be situated in the shelled out area of the hospital that has not been commissioned. The Health Service Executive stated that it is hoped to go to tender on this project in June 2006.
Minister Smith also stated that the proposal to provide a new modular building for Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpatients is being progressed and that the provision of this building will in turn facilitate the converting back of a 5-bed ward for inpatients. He stated that the Health Service Executive had informed him that it is proposed to have this Modular Building fully commissioned and operational by August 2006 and that the overall cost of this project is in the region of €600,000.
The Cavan-Monaghan Fianna Fáil T.D stated that the building project to shell out Surgical 3 ward providing 21 additional beds, and the commissioning of the fourth operating theatre will cost in the region of €7 million.
Northern Sound Radio understands that Minister Smith and his Fianna Fáil Oireachtas Colleague Senator Diarmuid Wilson have had meetings with Senior Personnel in the Health Service Executive in relation to the need to progress as quickly as possible the provision of additional beds at Cavan General Hospital and also the need to address the difficulties that arise with the pressures on the Accident and Emergency Department.
Senator Wilson told Northern Sound Radio that the proposal to provide the modular building for Cardiac Rehabilitation Outpatients thus freeing up space for 5 additional beds and also the major building proposal to provide 21 additional beds and a fourth operating theatre are projects for which the funding has been committed by Government and are not vague commitments as suggested by some Public Representatives in this Constituency. He stated that these two projects that are now being progressed along with other longer-term building and expansion plans for Cavan General Hospital will ensure a wider range of services at the hospital.
