Among the flagship files of the Department of Social Affairs and Health, which you lead, there is the construction site of the new hospital, the bill for which has continued to climb over the years…
The huge hospital project represents a colossal investment. We will greatly exceed 1.5 billion euros [en 2011, le coût de ce projet était évalué à 550 millions d’euros, N.D.L.R.], knowing that it is a project that spans 20 years. In two decades, medicine has evolved, as have techniques and needs. What we were able to project in 2012 will no longer be good in 2032.
There is a lot of work that is being done over time to try to develop the project, in any case to build a hospital that is modular and flexible enough to adapt it without having to carry out extremely heavy and impacting work.