A new delay in the future Campus de la Salut, which includes the new Trueta hospital on land in Girona and Salt, as well as the UdG faculties of Medicine and Nursing, could distance the idea that the province's reference hospital is ready in 2030, the last date that Salut put on the table.
If six months ago the observatory promoted by the Col·legi de Metges de Girona (COMG), which every half year reports on the evolution of the project, assured that the City Councils of Girona and Salt would make the campus land available to the Health Department at the beginning of 2024, yesterday they reported that Girona "is behind schedule" and will not be able to meet that deadline because it must first resolve an environmental issue that affects the land of the transfer, approximately 20% of the total surface. Salt would meet the planned schedule.
Faced with this situation, the doctors who make up the Campus Observatory, created two years ago to put pressure on the administrations in order for the project to move forward, urge Salut not to rest on its laurels and to start working now on the tender for the competition. of ideas, even though the land in Girona is not ready.
“This delay should not be any obstacle, we hope that progress can continue only with the Salt land initially transferred if necessary,” explains the president of the COMG, Josep Vilaplana.
The objective – they say – is to avoid wasting more time on a project that “we have been waiting for since 2007” and that has accumulated significant delays between 2014 and 2020 due to the dispute between Girona, which proposed the Domeny neighborhood, and Salt over its final location. The issue was finally resolved with a Solomonic decision with the construction of the campus to the south of both cities.
Yesterday, Salut did not want to clarify whether Girona's delay in transferring the land will mean a setback and called for a press conference to be held on December 11 in which it will present the functional plan of the new Trueta and the steps that the department will follow to from now on. The City Council, for its part, recognizes that the procedures are going a little later than projected a long time ago but that the “pace is good.”
The future hospital, which will serve one million inhabitants, could double the number of beds in the current hospital center (from 400 to 800) and triple the number of operating rooms.
