Macao’s second public hospital is expected to be finished by the end of December, with the first patients being admitted early next year.
Located at the end of the Cotai strip, the 1,100-bed facility will raise the number of beds in the city’s public and private hospitals by about 50 per cent.
So far, construction of the general hospital building, auxiliary facilities building, integrated services administration building, nursing college, staff hostel and central laboratory has cost about MOP 9.86 billion; a rehabilitation hospital is left due to being built later.
The new hospital will be managed in a public-private partnership with the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, with assistance from the National Health Commission. The hospital’s strategic development committee will be headed by the Honorary President of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Zhao Yupei.
Four Macao health professionals – Director of the Office of the Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Ho Ioc San, Health Bureau Director Alvis Lo Iek long, Deputy Director of the Financial Services Bureau Ho Silvestre In Mui and former Health Bureau Director Lei Chin Ion – will also sit on the committee.
They will be joined by the President of Peking Union Medical College Hospital Zhang Shuyang, the vice president of the hospital Wu Wenming, and Li Wei, deputy director of the Office of Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan Affairs of the National Health Commission. The committee will be in operation until the end of 2023.
