£44m supercentre nears completion

The mother-and-children’s supercentre at the Royal Oldham Hospital

CONSTRUCTION of Oldham’s new £44 million women and children’s supercentre at the Royal Oldham Hospital is on the verge of completion.

Contractors Vinci Construction UK are planning a topping-out ceremony on July 31 to celebrate — in the roof-top garden of the five-storey building

The ceremony will mark the end of building and the final stages of internal works, ahead of the opening in December.

The state-of-the art facility will house a paediatric theatre, two obstetric theatres, delivery suites, post-natal wards, a gynaecological outpatients centre, an endoscopy unit, paediatric day and case wards, an accident-and-emergency observation unit, surgical triage and a 30-bed assessment unit.

The overall scheme has also involved refurbishing existing first-floor wards, which include an ante-natal clinic, wards and day-case facilities, a gynaecological assessment unit, early pregnancy unit with overnight stay and a midwife-led unit.


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