The Minister of Public Works explained that it will be completed in the first quarter of this year. MEPs emphasized that there was no impact study on the hospital’s environment.
Members of the Special Committee to investigate the systematic irregular actions of the Executive, which affect the treatment, prevention and control of the pandemic, asked the Ministers of Public Works, Romeo Rodríguez; and from Health, Francisco Alabí, for delaying the delivery of phase 3 of El Salvador Hospital.
“There are statements, there are audio recordings in which his person (Minister Rodríguez) states that phase 3 of the El Salvador hospital was to be ready and was to start work on July 31, five and a half months have passed since then, what happened ? ”, Asked the deputy Emilio Corea, from ARENA, and the chairman of the commission.
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The head of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) avoided the question of delay, in addition to saying that the legislators did not give money for the repair of the hospital network or for carrying out activities for the pandemic.
Korea also recalled that President Nayib Bukele gave up the houses, saying they were bought with savings from El Salvador Hospital, “an economy from a hospital that is not finished,” he said.
Minister Rodríguez replied that the first two phases of the hospital have already been completed and that phase 3 will be a permanent structure to provide care and that they have already entered the closure phase (temporary barriers that are placed around the work), “We hope to conclude it in the first quarter of this year, as we have mentioned on various occasions “, said the head of MOP.
MP Elizabeth Gómez recalled that the Assembly had approved $ 15 million for the government in El Salvador’s hospital, in addition to the fact that it had recently given $ 60 million for its operation.
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“Between March and April, we approved several budgets for you (the government) because you had no money, so how do you explain everything you did,” said FMLN Deputy Elizabeth Gómez.
He added that the minister did not say whether there was an environmental impact study for the construction of the outbuilding of the El Salvador hospital, which at the beginning of construction was said to be temporary and then changed his speech to say it would be permanent.
“We are requesting all the necessary permits to be able to build the infrastructure. We have already answered, we have done all the pertinent legal processes, we have done it correctly “, said Rodríguez.
Health Minister Francisco Alabí said when asked about phase 3 of the hospital, he said there are already two phases working.
“Phase 3 of the hospital and the answer given by the Minister (of the MOP) is being formulated, this ongoing infrastructure is completed, what greater depth and explain that at this time the necessary capacity is part of the first and second phase Said Alabí.