Construction at Päijät-Häme Central Hospital will continue immediately after the completion of the major expansion project

Making evacuation facilities for the next expansion of the central hospital will start in October. 8,000 square meters of premises are needed.

The construction site of the expansion part of Päijät-Häme Central Hospital in August 2020.
Päijät-Häme Central Hospital has been a construction site for years, and the construction is not finished. Stock photo.

The construction of evacuation facilities for the next expansion of Päijät-Häme Central Hospital will start in the fall.

Based on the tender, the construction of escape facilities will cost more than 10 million euros. The welfare association received two bids for the contract. Lujatalo Oy, which made the cheapest offer, is presented as the project management contractor.

The escape facilities will be ready at the end of next year.

Evacuation space is created for the needs of, among other things, the children’s clinic and the neurology, internal medicine and lung disease wards. About 8,000 square meters of evasion space is needed.

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