The Government entered 265.1 million euros for the new Western hospital in the State Budget (OE) for 2025, according to a note from the Ministry of Health delivered to Parliament.

“The Government, in 2025, will adopt the necessary measures to guarantee the procedures for the construction and equipment of four hospital infrastructures,” including the new Western hospital, is mentioned in the OE2025 proposal delivered to the Assembly of the Republic on October 10.

In an explanatory note for OE2025 subsequently sent to Parliament, the Ministry of Health clarified that 265.1 million euros had been registered for the new Western hospital.

“The current Government For the first time in the Multiannual Plan of the National Health Service, an allocation of 265 million euros was foreseen for the construction of the new hospital in Oeste and this is positive”PSD deputy Marco Claudino reacted last week in parliament, and then recalled that “its location has yet to be finalized and defined” by the current Government.

In October, in a meeting with the 12 mayors of the Intermunicipal Community (CIM) of the West, the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins assured that the hospital infrastructure competition should be launched “during the first half of 2025.”

At the time, the president of the CIM Oeste, Pedro Folgado (PS), told the Lusa agency that “the hospital will be built,” but that the Ministry of Health had not yet decided the location of the new equipment, nor the place where will be located. delivery model.

This is despite the fact that, in July, Parliament recommended that the Government “guarantee the construction and operation of the new public hospital in the West during the current legislature” and decide on the financing method “before the discussion of the State Budget.” by 2025.”

The construction of the new Oeste hospital is included in the ‘Transition Portfolio’ delivered by the socialist government of António Costa to the current prime minister, the social democrat Luís Montenegro.

HE The profile and care location were approved in June 2023, “with the financing model under study”, which was delivered to the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in February of this year.

The new hospital must cover the area of ​​influence of Caldas da Rainha, Óbidos, Peniche, Bombarral, Torres Vedras, Cadaval and Lourinhã, excluding Nazaré and the parishes of Alcobaça and Mafra currently served.

The decision of the previous executive to build the future hospital in Bombarral, on a 54-hectare plot of land, took into account its centrality in relation to the municipalities it will serve and the size of the land that allows the expansion of the new unit, if this was necessary.

The choice of Bombarral was also based on accessibility criteria, such as its proximity to exit 11 of Highway 8 (which runs through the entire West) and the train station.

The new hospital will have to replace the current units of Caldas da Rainha, Torres Vedras and Peniche of the Local Health Unit of the West, which serve 300 thousand inhabitants of the municipalities of Caldas da Rainha, Óbidos, Peniche, Bombarral, Torres Vedras, Cadaval and Lourinhã and part of the municipalities of Alcobaça and Mafra.

The Government reserves 45 million for the new maternity hospital in Coimbra

The State Budget (OE) for 2025 reserves 45 million euros for the construction of the new Coimbra maternity hospital, whose works should begin next year, reported the Ministry of Health.

The construction of the new maternity hospital, the process of which has been going on for years, which will replace the two currently existing in the city of Coimbra, it is one of the five large multi-annual investments of the Government for next yearwhich total an investment of 893 million euros.

Source from the Local Health Unit (ULS) of Coimbra confirmed this Wednesday to the Lusa agency that the competition for the Construction of the new maternity hospital will begin in February 2025.with a planned investment of about 55 million euros (VAT included).

The new maternity hospital, which will be built within the perimeter of the hospitals of the University of Coimbra, has been in demand for some time in the region and has suffered several delays in time (in 2021, its inauguration was scheduled for 2024 and, in 2023, It was expected that the contest could be launched in the first quarter of 2024).

On October 28, the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, considered that the construction of a new maternity hospital in Coimbra is “an absolute necessity” for the Central Region and recalled that it is identified as a priority in the State Budget report.

“Motherhood in Coimbra is not just a dream from a long time ago. It is an absolute necessity for the Central region”he stressed.

On the sidelines of the public signing ceremony of the memorandums of understanding for the implementation of the “Be Mom” program in the National Health Service, which took place in Coimbra, Ana Paula Martins stated that “it was clear” in the State Budget. that “motherhood in Coimbra is a priority.”