Towards new safe and sustainable hospitals - Italia Domani

Towards new safe and sustainable hospitals

What is the goal of the investment?

The goal of the investment is to improve structural safety - from an anti-seismic perspective - in 116 hospitals, identified during an inspection conducted by the Ministry of Health.

For this investment, an additional € 1.45 billion is expected to be financed by the Complementary Plan.

Total investment cost € 1.64 bn

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Additional details

Two investment lines will be applied to meet the outlined goals:

• Seismic improvement and re-qualification processes in hospital structures identified in the assessment of the requirements set forth by the Regions.

• Multi-annual intervention aimed at renewing and modernising the technological and physical layout of public-health real estate assets.

What are the benefits?

Anti-seismic consolidation tasks will ensure:

Safer hospital structures
Re-qualification of the workplace for health workers
Greater patient safety
An improvement in the structures' environmental impact

Key Dates

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