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Razsochy Hospital Should be Completed via PPP by 2017
Wednesday 14 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - Completion of the partially-built hospital Razsochy in the Bratislava borough Lamac will be carried out as a public-private partnership (PPP) project, the Government decided on Wednesday.
Finance Minister Jan Pociatek and Health Minister Richard Rasi were assigned to work out the project proposal (for gaining the financial support to proceed to a feasibility study) by the end of July. The feasibility study should be ready by the end of 2011 and should be submitted to Cabinet for acknowledgement by the end of February 2012, when the future of the project should be decided.
The Health Ministry suggested financing the Razsochy completion either by borrowing the money or via PPP. According to the proposal, the hospital could have been opened in five years by borrowing the money; as a PPP project completion it will be later (2017).
An audit has proven that completion of Razsochy, including the equipment, would require €480 million without VAT. According to the opposition SDKU-DS, eight hospitals - one in each of the Slovak regions - could be built for the same amount of money.
Dean of the Comenius University medical faculty Peter Labas supports the completion, however, as a training complex for future doctors should be part of it.
About a year ago the Government cancelled a resolution made by the previous government in 2003, which indicated that completion of Razsochy should be stopped and the property (with the half-finished building) should be sold. As much as €33.2 million was at that time invested in the construction but the total expected costs reached €159.3 million. That-time health minister Rudolf Zajac said he would sell the project to "anybody who would show an interest" (but no one was).
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