Mexico to Replace Quake-Hit Hospital
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY —
Construction of a $30 million, 700-bed hospital complex to replace the Medical Center destroyed in last year’s earthquakes will begin in August, the Mexican Social Security Institute announced.
Ricardo Garcia Sainz, director of the institute, said the 21st Century National Medical Center is to be finished sometime in 1988.
Many of the buildings in the original Medical Center were destroyed or damaged beyond repair when two major earthquakes struck the city last September.
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