With CABEI support, Costa Rica inaugurates new Puntarenas Hospital, the largest and most modern in Central America

30/01/2025

• 350,000 people will directly benefit from the new hospital, which replaces the old building that was damaged by an earthquake ten years ago.

San José, January 31, 2025.- Costa Rica marks a new chapter in the history of its social security system with the inauguration of the Monseñor Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez Hospital in Puntarenas, the largest and most modern hospital in Central America with the capacity to attend more than 350,000 people in a timely manner with state-of-the-art technology.

The new 75,000-square-meter, five-story building will strengthen medical care in the central Pacific region of the country with a wide range of specialized services, including hospitalization, outpatient surgery, emergencies, operating and delivery rooms, intensive care, medical and gynecological oncology, chemotherapy, hemodynamics, optometry and cardiology, among others.

It also has a heliport that will guarantee care for communities in hard-to-reach areas, and is the first hospital in the country with a semi-automated pharmacy service.

At the inauguration event, the President of the Republic, Rodrigo Chaves, thanked CABEI for its support in the construction of this important project and emphasized: “a key ally that has made it possible to invest in more than 80% of the hospitals in the country.

The total investment for the construction and equipment of this hospital center was $225 million, of which $130.4 million was financed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), as part of the “Hospital Infrastructure and Equipment Renovation Program”, which also allowed for the modernization of other key hospitals in the country.

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