São Paulo – The Syrian Lebanese hospital should inaugurate a new unit in São Paulo in 2010, in the Itaim Bibi neighbourhood. Investment in the new unit should total 35 million Brazilian reals (US$ 20.2 million) in the eight story building, to occupy an area of 4,300 square meters on Joaquim Floriano street.
The installations should offer a day-care hospital for surgeries, with four operating rooms, a diagnosis centre and emergency rooms. The new hospital should also have an oncology centre, with doctor’s offices and individual chemotherapy rooms. It should also have an image diagnosis department, offering endoscopy services.
Up to 2012, they Syrian-Lebanese hospital should invest over 600 million reals (US$ 347 million) in the expansion of its current unit, with new installations and the construction of another three towers. The health institution is philanthropic, having been established and developed by the Arab community.
*Translated by Mark Ament
