Chinese government grants 36 million RMB through ETCAs for expansion of Arzobispo Loayza Hospital (links: #56429, #56274, #46985, #73148, #36008, #73150, #73445)

On July 7, 2009, the Peruvian Ministry of Health and the Yanjian Group, on behalf of the Peruvian and Chinese governments respectively, signed a 36 million yuan construction contract for the Arzobispo Loayza National Hospital Expansion Project (Ampliación del Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza) in Lima, Peru, to pull from grant funds provided by multiple Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreements (ETCA) signed on the following dates: January 17, 2003; January 27, 2005; September 18, 2006; and March 30, 2007. The project's goal was to construct a new pavilion at the Arzobispo Loayza National Hospital in Lima that would house a new Intensive Care Unit, Intermediate Care Unit, Blood Bank, Central Sterilization Unit, and Nutrition Center. The building was to occupy 1964 square meters of a 4205 square meter area and include two floors and a basement. The purpose of the expansion was to better provide medical service to Lima and the general population of Peru, according to the 2009 Peruvian Minister of Health. The expansion was also part of a greater push by the Peruvian government to invest in new infrastructure and health equipment in 2009 and 2010. The Chinese government first agreed to the hospital expansion project in Letters of Exchange signed with the Peruvian International Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Agencia Peruana de Cooperación Internacional/APCI) on March 30, 2007. On February 13, 2008, the design contract was signed with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (see project #46985). On July 7, 2009, the construction contract was signed. The groundbreaking ceremony took place December 28, 2009. The Chinese government, through the construction contract, sent a team of technicians to assist with the construction. A project to install a vapor network system and other additions was approved on February 7, 2011. It was funded through the Peruvian Ministry of Health and was installed between the end of construction and the inauguration ceremony. Construction ended on March 28, 2011, and the inauguration and handover ceremony took place May 13, 2011. There is evidence that preparation for the execution of this project began prior to the signing of the Letters of Exchange on March 30, 2007. See comments for more information. This project was subsequently added to with more construction from 2011-2013 (see #56274). In 2017, a project maintaining and fixing the facilities that were constructed in this project and in project #56274 was agreed to, captured in #56429. Chinese name for this project is "洛阿伊萨医院". The project name in Spanish varies slightly between documents, but broadly includes "Ampliación del Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza" and "Construcción del Pabellón para Cuidados Intensivos e Intermedios, Banco de Sangre, Unidad Central de Esterlilización y Service de Alimentación Central."

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The work that continued in 2011 captured in project 56274 is unclear. It may be that this project captures the construction of the building itself, while 56274 captures the installation of the units inside the building (such as the Blood Bank, etc.) Project 46995 captures what may either be a duplicate of this project, an earlier version of the same intensive care pavilion captured in this project that was subsequently suspended and replaced, or a precursor to this project. On June 2, 2005, an agreement to install an intensive care unit at the Archbishop Loayza Hospital was signed. The construction of an intensive care pavilion to be funded by the Chinese government is listed as a not-yet-executed cooperation project in a 2005 APCI document. A design team from China arrived in Peru on a protocol visit regarding the architectural design of a pavilion within the hospital on March 13, 2006 (see "Memoria Anual 2006"). The relationship between the pavilions committed in June 2005 (captured in 46995) and March 2007 (captured here) is unclear. It is possible it is a separate project altogether. More likely, it is (1) a suspended, earlier version of this project; or (2) these pre-2007 steps were part of the implementation of this project, and were simply taken prior to funds being officially committed on March 30, 2007.

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