Chinese Government funds design contract for Arzobispo Loayza National Hospital expansion through 2003 ETCA (Linked to Record ID#56926 and #73148)

Project narrative

On February 13, 2008, the Peruvian Ministry of Health and the Beijing Architectural Design Institute, on behalf of the Peruvian and Chinese governments respectively, signed a design contract for the expansion of the Arzobispo Loayza National Hospital (Diseño para el Proyecto de Ampliación del Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, captured in Record ID#56926). The contract was worth 8% of the total project cost, ultimately estimated to be 2.88 million RMB, although it was initially valued at 3.6 million RMB. The funds were drawn from the grant provided by the Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) signed between the two governments on January 17, 2003 (Record ID#73148). The hospital expansion project itself was agreed to in Letters of Exchange signed on March 30, 2007. The design contract stipulates that the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design will create construction plans for the additional portion of the hospital to be built, sending a design team of four to Peru to do so. They also agreed to send a representative of the design team to Peru during the actual construction. The building's purpose was to house a new General Intensive Care Unit, a Intermediate Care Unit, a Blood Bank, a Sterilization center, and a Nutrition center.