A general commission on the reconstruction of the de Bruyn hospital

Elected representatives from the Conseil territorial, the Agence régionale de santé and the Centre hospitalier Irénée de Bruyn will all be meeting at the Hôtel de la Collectivité this Friday, October 3, for a general commission meeting. The meeting, which is closed to the public, will focus on the hospital reconstruction project and the financing arrangements. In short, it's a grand mass, the aim of which will be to set out in detail a project that is vital to the development of the island's healthcare provision.
The project to be presented is based on two scenarios. The first involves reconstruction combined with restructuring of the existing facilities. This option has been estimated to cost around €32.6 million. The second involves a complete reconstruction of the facility, with a rethinking of its layout. Estimated cost: over 34.6 million euros. A financing plan will have to be drawn up, including the 4.7 million allocated by the French government as part of the Ségur de la santé program. This envelope has been gathering dust for over three years.
In both cases, several options will be proposed to the elected representatives: the installation of a vertiport, a helipad, the construction of housing, the integration of a Maison des assistantes maternelles and the Maison de la santé into the structure. The estimated budgets include all these options.
If all the stages leading up to the launch of the works follow the provisional schedule, the first phases of the site could be launched in mid-2027. This would enable the finished work to be handed over in the second half of 2030.
For all these phases to be launched, however, the question of the hospital's land must be settled. This issue has yet to be resolved. In fact, mediation between the hospital and the Département de la Guadeloupe, which must designate the owner of the plots on which the hospital and Ehpad are to be built, has been extended by three months. First vice-president of the Collectivité, president of the hospital's supervisory board and of the health commission, Marie-Hélène Bernier wrote in an online publication dated September 25: "To date, mediation has gone more in the direction of not only the hospital property, but also the land on which the Collectivité built the hospital. the Collectivité built the Ehpad, housing and medical imaging center would also belong to the hospital. If this were the case, further mediation would have to take place between the Collectivité and the hospital. "