New EsSalud hospital to be built in El Callao

The Executive President of EsSalud, Dr. Alvaro Vidal, laid the first stone for a new Level III Hospital to be built in El Callao, Peru, which will be integrated to the Sabogal Assistance Network.

The new hospital complex will attend to 250,000 insured patients and will include modern equipment with more than 200 beds, clinical laboratories, obstetric center, radiology, among others.

The construction and equipment of the new center will last 24 months, which should see it operating by May 2014.

The general manager of Callao Salud SAC, Carlos Roques, explained that the hospital will include 14 medical specialties and 11 surgical specialties.

The project is under a Public-Private partnership model and will be evaluated by EsSalud.  The Public-Private partnership formula is attested to by international institutions such as the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Andean Development Corporation, which has been successful in countries which it has been implemented in.