Clark launches Surrey hospital expansion
CBC News
Posted: Mar 21, 2011 1:08 PM PT
Last Updated: Mar 21, 2011 1:39 PM PT
B.C. Premier Christy Clark was in Surrey this morning to launch the province's largest-ever health-care project – the $512-million expansion of Surrey Memorial Hospital.
Clark said the project will add a new eight-storey critical care tower and a new emergency room five times larger than the existing one, as well as renovating the existing facility. Construction on the expansion actually began in January and is expected to wrap up in 2014.
"It's going to be huge. The second-biggest hospital - when this is done - in British Columbia is going to be right here in Surrey as it should be because this is where the population is growing," she said.
Surrey's rapid population growth has made hospital overcrowding a large problem for the Fraser Health Authority. Recently, the Royal Columbia Hospital in nearby New Westminster had to use its Tim Hortons as an emergency room because of a shortage of ER beds.
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