Polémica en Carlos Paz: approve of building a provincial hospital in front of a garbage dump

Councillors endorsed the donation of more than 3 hectares to the province, where they will set up the regional health center. There are questions due to inadequate environmental conditions due to the proximity to the garbage burial site and sewage fluid plant. Read more

President Bernardo Arévalo will participate this Tuesday in the bidding ceremony for the construction of three new hospitals in Mazatenango, Suchitepéquez; Cobán, Alta Verapaz and Jutiapa. According to Santiago Palomo, Secretary of Social Communication of the Presidency, this initiative represents the largest hospital expansion in Central America, with an investment of $269 million, financed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration …