L’Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano Hospital of Caserta inaugurates the works of a significant expansion of beds – another 177 will be built – and user services. The construction site opened today, with the demolition of an old wing and some buildings on the ruins of which new and modern departments will be created. And he arrived in Caserta to begin the interventions the governor Vincenzo De Luca who did not miss the opportunity to return to the delays in the allocation of development and cohesion funds by the Government, placing the matter in relation to the future of another important healthcare facility in the area: the Vanvitelli Polyclinic.
«The Region has allocated 55 million euros for the completion of the University Polyclinic of Casertabut the money is in the Development and Cohesion plan presented in October and on which there is still no agreement with the Government. That money is at risk», ruled the President of the Region. “It is a shame – continued De Luca – that no majority politician says anything about the delays in the allocation of Development and Cohesion funds”. The Government has also ended up in the governor’s sights for other reasons, such as the clean-up of Bagnoli. «Our Development and Cohesion plan presented in October – De Luca continued – already includes the Bagnoli project but the Government presented it in March before the electoral campaign, foreseeing 1.2 billion, with the money arriving in 2028 and 2029. A total ball that however blocks 1.2 billion euros foreseen in our Cohesion Plan”.
Returning to things in Caserta, the works for the construction of the University Hospital, a work whose client is the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli with the Region (which has a significant stake), have been going on for more than 20 years with mixed success: the construction site was often stopped by the contracting companies themselves and almost always due to problems related to financial resources.
But in Caserta, in the meantime, it was also given today the start of work on a complex healthcare building project for the creation – as mentioned – of 177 beds and support services. The intervention, financed with funds from the Mission “M6.C2-1.2. Towards a safe and sustainable hospital” of the National Plan of Complementary Investments (PNC) to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and of the Non-deferrable Works Fund (FOI) for a total cost of 54 million and 395 thousand euros, will allow the construction of 4 new buildings, united by a central connecting body, following the demolition of some buildings, the partial demolition and structural and architectural adaptation of other buildings, the redevelopment of open spaces with green areas and car parks. Regarding the health activities that were hosted in these structures, the director of Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano, Gaetano Gubitosaexplained that they were “preliminarily arranged for their temporary reallocation to areas of other buildings, which have been appropriately redeveloped”.
The top management of the hospital – explains a note from the hospital – therefore guided governor De Luca in a process aimed at illustrating the completed healthcare building interventions and verifying the progress of those in progress: the construction site of a two-storey building, financed with funds ex art. 20 L. 67/88, in which an operating theater with 8 surgical rooms, one of which is hybrid, and the new analysis laboratory will be located, with completion of the works expected for February 2025; the premises that will host the Pathological Anatomy and Histology operational unit, where the renovation and seismic adaptation works were carried out. De Luca then participated in the inauguration of the new Anatomy and Pathological Histology premises.
