Trust boss hails super centre

COMPLETED: trust chairman John Jesky plants the final piece of turf on the roof-top eco-garden, with (from left) neonatal lead nurse Ian Yates, clinical director Olubusola Amu, and Vince Boodea and Colin Rankin of Vinci Construction.

MORE than 5,000 babies a year will be born at the £44 million super centre at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

Work on the long-awaited women and children’s facility is only weeks away from completion.

Staff from construction firm Vinci and the hospital celebrated with a ‘”topping out” ceremony.

Chairman of the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, John Jesky, said: “What this new building means for our patients, and the people of Oldham and Rochdale in particular, is that our sickest babies, and mothers who are struggling, can be treated closer to home.”

The five-storey building, which will open to patients in December will boast 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.







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