The Girona and Salt City Councils plan to make the land where the future Trueta hospital will be located available to the Department of Health between the end of this year and the beginning of 2024.
This if more is not the commitment that the two consistories have transferred to the Observatori del Campus de Salut, made up of doctors, researchers and university personnel, who every six months analyze the status of a project, which has been going on for years.
“We have wasted between five and seven years in the discussion about its location, between the Domeny neighborhood of Girona and Salt,” recalled the head of the cardiology service at Trueta and Santa Caterina and a member of the driving group for functional bread on the new campus de Salut, which will include not only the future reference hospital in the province, but also the faculties of Medicine and Nursing.
“These are unos plazos that we must believe, it would be fantastic,” said this morning the former head of the surgical area service at the Josep Trueta Hospital and the Institute of Health Care (IAS), Antoni Codina.
The members of the Observatori have been more optimistic today than in the last call, six months ago, when they indicated the delay of Salt in the urban planning process.
“There has been significant progress in the forecasts we had, in the last appearance we were not so optimistic,” said Rafel Reixach, vice-rector of the Sustainable Campus of the University of Girona (UdG).
To move forward with the project, the Observatory has asked the Generalitat to allocate the two million euros that it has earmarked for the future health campus in carrying out a contest of ideas or preliminary project on the future health campus.
“There are many issues that we need to deal with jointly, with a global vision,” said Marga Nadal, director of the Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI).
In this ideas competition, aspects such as parking needs, mobility in the area or how the future health campus will be linked to the facilities of the Parc Hospitalari Martà Julià de Salt, which includes the Santa Caterina Hospital and the IDIBGI, must be addressed. Some 5,000 people will move in this space, between workers and students.
In addition, the Observatori asks the Government to consider the bidding for the urban project in the 2024 budgets, which would force a much larger item to be allocated to the campus than the current one. The president of the Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Girona, Josep Vilaplana, explains that it should include 10% of the overall budget for the entire work.
An infrastructure that in the best of cases will not be a reality until the end of this decade and that, as explained by the Ministry in the presentation of the first maps of the future building, will involve an investment of around 400 million euros.
In parallel, work is being done on the functional plans of the university and the new Trueta. The latter is expected to be ready in the fall. The functional plans linked to the university will consist of four legs: teaching area and training for the degrees of Medicine and Nursing; the biomedical research institute; the science park -since the intention is to move everything related to the field of health that is now in the current Science Park, in La Creueta, to the new campus- and a fourth leg on a future “key” simulation center – points out Vilaplana- for the hospital and the teaching of degrees and postgraduates.
