The new national hospital in Reykjavík, construction of which is due to start shortly, could reduce running costs by up to 3 billion Icelandic krónur a year, if it is built according to the current plans and all operations are moved onto one site on Hringbraut.

This is the result of the revised feasibility study carried out by the Norwegian consultancy firm Hospitalitet. Björn Zoëga, the chairman of the hospital, writes a Friday blog column on the hospital’s website, which this week announces that specialists claim that it is significantly more uneconomical to continue running the hospital as it is than to unify operations on one site.

The national hospital, or Landspítali in Icelandic, is currently sprawled across several sites in Reykjavík, with main buildings on the main road Hringbraut and in the Fossvogur area, on the other side of Perlan. A large empty lot currently stands opposite the Hringbraut site, where the hospital plans to build new facilities.

Zoëga said, “It is reassuring that these calculations tally up with what we’ve said many times over; it’s more expensive to do nothing, and that unified on one site, we could streamline the hospital’s operations even further and therefore recoup the building costs.”

Source and image: mbl.is

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