The Ministry of Health has awarded the $614.2 million contract  for the construction, equipment and maintenance of the new Children's Hospital, to the Spanish company Acciona Construcción.The project "will involve building one of the country's main hospital complexes, with 720 beds, between the general medical center and the annexed maternity hospital" at the Santo Tomás hospital, Acciona said in a public statement on Thursday, June 11.

The company specified that it will also be responsible for the restoration of the gardens, the rehabilitation of the building for administrative services and other adjoining facilities.

The renovated hospital complex will span more than 165,000 square meters of new construction, as well as another 5,700 square meters rehabilitated.  "The Children's Hospital will have more than 94,000 square meters, which implies 476 beds and 14 operating rooms; in addition, a space of more than 24,000 square meters will be allocated for 700 parking spaces.

Additionally, the new maternity wing of Santo Tomás will have 244 beds, 14 operating rooms, and 30 delivery rooms, "Acciona said..

Acciona won the tender for this work in May 2019 and last March the Ministry of Health confirmed it through a resolution after rejecting six claims filed by the.

Acciona began its activity in Panama in 2013 with the construction of the Dr. Rafael Hernández Specialized Hospital Center in David.