Palma's new hospital ready “before the end of the year”

Antich, accompanied by regional Health Minister Vicenç Thomàs, was speaking during a visit to the hospital construction site where he said that work was continuing at a “good pace” and that the aspect of the building had “changed greatly” since his last visit only a few months ago.

The President highlighted the fact that investment in the new hospital will mean the provision of an increased number of operating theatres, a more expansive emergency treatment unit, a fully-developed psychiatric department as well as a medical teaching centre and research laboratories. Antich said the hospital would be a major contribution to the health of people living in the Balearic Islands and that the government was liaising with Palma City Council to ensure that a public bus service would ferry people out to Son Espases from Palma.