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Sanitas wins government tender to build public hospital
25 September 2006
Bupa’s Spanish arm, Sanitas, has won a government tender to build and run a large new public hospital in the Manises area of Valencia.
The 15 year PFI contract for the Valencia government involves building and managing the new hospital as well as updating and running primary care centres in the region, building a new health centre in Turis and renovating a specialist centre in Aldaya.
Sanitas has formed a consortium with Ribera Salud, a firm owned by local Spanish savings banks, to carry out the 137-million Euro project which will begin early next year. The new Horta Manises hospital will employ 700 staff and treat 140,000 people in the province. It will be the biggest of Sanitas’ three hospitals, the other two of which are in Madrid.
Sanitas CEO Pablo Juantegui said: "This news confirms our backing of the new model of mixed public/private management and we hope to contribute great value to the Valencian health system by helping to cut waiting times and provide patients with the latest technologies and treatments. It will enable us to be at the cutting edge of hospital management in Spain."
The hospital will include over 200 bedrooms, 10 large operating theatres and a large outpatient department. As well as general surgery, it will provide a neonatal unit, obstetrics, dialysis, oncology and chemotherapy treatment and MRI scans.
Sanitas is Bupa’s Spanish healthcare business providing medical insurance for 1.5 million people and operating two hospitals, 26 medical and dental clinics and 21 care homes.
Dean Holden, managing director of Bupa’s international businesses, said: "This is a great opportunity to broaden Sanitas' role in the Spanish healthcare market and deliver health and care for another 140,000 people."
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