Cancún Finishes Demolishing Old General Hospital as Work Begins on New Maternal-Infant Facility

Cancún, Quintana Roo — Demolition of the old Hospital General de Cancún is now 100 percent complete, and crews have begun hauling away the rubble, Mayor Ana Paty Peralta said. The site is being prepared for the new Hospital Materno Infantil, a project expected to serve more than 190,000 residents.

Peralta toured the property and said that with the demolition finished, the city government is focused on removing construction waste and clearing the land before the next phase of the project begins.

The mayor was accompanied by Samantha Hernández Cardeña, the city’s secretary of Public Works and Services, and Landy Guadalupe Canché Pantoja, the first trustee and chair of the Public Works and Services Commission. The officials watched as demolition material was loaded onto dump trucks and hauled off the property.

“Thanks to our governor, Mara Lezama, we will have Cancún’s first maternal-infant hospital here,” Peralta said during the tour.

Site Covers More Than 6,600 Square Meters

The municipal work is taking place on a 6,637.43-square-meter property that held the hospital’s old patient-care, administrative, supply and warehouse buildings, along with a guard booth.

Of the total, 6,163.61 square meters correspond to the hospital area, 216 square meters to administrative space, and 131.15 square meters to supply facilities, with the rest divided between warehouses and the gatehouse.

With the demolition done, crews can concentrate on clearing and grading the site — the step before construction of the new maternal and child health facility gets underway.

New Hospital to Have 104 Beds and Three Operating Rooms

According to the plans announced for the project, the new Hospital Materno Infantil de Cancún will have 40 inpatient beds and 64 non-inpatient beds, seven examination rooms and three operating rooms.

Specialized areas will include a neonatal intensive care unit with eight intensive-care beds and four intermediate-care beds for newborns.

The facility will also feature an X-ray room with fluoroscopy, two portable X-ray units and two ultrasound machines, as well as emergency, pathology, perinatology, neonatology, gynecology, obstetrics and pediatrics departments.

The project is intended to expand medical capacity for pregnant women, newborns and children, with specialized facilities designed to address a range of health needs.

The pace of the cleanup and debris-removal work will determine when the site is ready for the next construction phase.