A new building which will host the tuberculosis department of the Arad Emergency Clinical Hospital will be built in the city in the next three years, with the financing of over 10 million lei to come from the Arad County Council.

Nicolae Ioţcu, the president of the Council of the County of Arad, and Gheorghe Maximan, the head of Arad-based company Tehnodomus, which won the contract for the designing and the execution of the investment, yesterday signed the contract for the works on the building which will be located on the Stephan Ludwig Roth street, in the neighborhood of Grădişte.

The surface of the new division is 8006 square meters, which will allow it to meet all the requirements to be authorized and classified according to the norms of the European Union. The hospital will have 112 beds, of which 50 specializing in pulmonology. The department will also have enough green areas to ensure the minimum requirement of 20 sqm of green areas/patient, according to the norms of the European Union for this specialty.

The contractor has the obligation to provide a project within 45 days from the signing of the contract, and complete the building within 36 months from the approval of the technical project.

The amount of the contract is 10,231,646.11 lei, VAT excluded (over 2.2 million Euros), money which comes from the resources of the Arad County Council.

Nicolae Ioţcu explained: "The county of Arad has a difficult situation in terms of the structure of its assets, as to what concerns the ownership of the buildings where various departments of the clinic are operating. The most important department - tuberculosis -, operates in a building which was claimed by its former owners, and returned to them and for which we have exceeded the five year-grace period when we could still occupy it and we have to leave. We have found a sympathetic owner a