Coloane health complex nears completion

The construction of the new healthcare complex in Seac Pai Van is expected to be completed this quarter after the project missed its initial completion target in December last year, the Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) told Business Daily.
The 10-storey complex will house a health centre, a medical treatment centre, a day-care centre and a nursing home for the elderly.
The centre will be handed to the Health Bureau upon completion of construction, telling Business Daily that it will proceed to ‘re-modelling’ and ‘refitting’ works inside the property, with the opening to the public ‘on a date yet to be defined.’
The MOP325.8 million (US$40.7 million) construction contract was awarded to a consortium comprising Companhia de Construção & Engenharia Shing Lung, Limitada / Long Cheong — Construções e Engenharia, Limitada / AD & C Engenharia e Construções Companhia Limitada, while a MOP18.8 million fiscalisation contract was awarded to Fernando Cardoso Botelho — FCB — Gabinete de Engenharia, Limitada.
Construction on the project started in September 2014 and was originally slated for completion in 850 days as mandated by the contract. GDI explained on its official website that the delay was due to ‘extraction of stones in the development of foundations and adverse weather conditions.’
 
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According to the tender notice for the project, the complex will use energy and water sustainable technologies and will include an underground parking lot with spaces for 300 vehicles.
“The Seac Pai Van Health Centre will provide adult health services, pre-birth healthcare, family planning, women and child healthcare, out-patientappointments, Traditional Chinese Medicine services and dental practice,” the Health Bureau said. “It will also provide nursing services for public and community health, diabetes, the elderly, rehabilitation and pediatrics.”
Regarding the recruitment of medical personnel for the Centre, the Health Bureau claimed workers currently working in the Temporary Health Centre in Seac Pai Van would be transferred to the new project following the opening.
Further medical human resources will also be shifted from other medical centres in the MSAR, the Bureau added, although it did not disclose how many extra personnel will be needed for the new project.
‘Only after the public opening, which is not yet defined, will the human resources of the health centre be adjusted, according to the needs of the community and the number of users that will require the services,’ said the Bureau.