She noted that patients requiring treatment for those three conditions must currently cross the Fraser River to receive care. "While we wait for this hospital to be built, exponential population growth continues." “Surrey needs more health-care infrastructure,” said Anita Huberman, the organization's president and CEO, in the statement. The Surrey Board of Trade responded to the news with a statement reminding the province that there's "still time" to include services for trauma, heart attacks and strokes in the new building.
While Tuesday's announcement didn't reduce the offerings that had previously been announced for the new hospital, it also didn't expand them. We weren't going to reduce the number of beds in order to find cost savings." We weren't going to reduce the cancer centre. We weren't going to compromise on what was available in the building. And, we have to maintain our high standards. We have to deliver for the people of Surrey.
"That's what we have to do," he said, referring to the second option. He said the bids the province received for the project left it with two choices: to delay building a hospital and hope costs come down or to pay the increased costs and get the project done. The growing cost of materials and a shortage of essential labour have combined to make both public- and private-sector projects more expensive, he said. The price tag has also grown substantially, from an estimated $1.72 billion last year to $2.88 billion today.Įby attributed the cost increases to higher costs in the construction industry, generally. Read more: New Surrey hospital will cost $1B more than planned, won't open until 2030Ĭonstruction of the new facility is now expected to be finished in 2029, rather than 2027, with the first patients being treated there in 2030.
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Premier David Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix and other provincial officials provided an update on plans to build a new hospital in Surrey. It's an issue the Surrey Board of Trade has raised alarm over as recently as February, when it published a report on the city's hospital needs that asked the government to ensure the city has the facilities necessary to treat the province's three leading causes of death: heart attack, stroke and trauma. When the new hospital that broke ground Tuesday is completed in 2029, it still won't. Despite being the second-largest city in British Columbia, with a population forecast to overtake that of Vancouver in the coming decades, the City of Surrey doesn't have a Level 1 trauma centre within its boundaries.
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