A health center in Koné to improve healthcare provision in the North

The program comprises the construction of a local hospital site with 58 beds and 5 outpatient places. This will increase CHN’s total capacity to 150 beds (65 more than at present). The center will provide:A comprehensive medical-technical platform, with an emergency unit equipped with mobile emergency and intensive care services (SMUR),Diversified local healthcare services,And the Koné Medical-Social Center site will also have a health and social agency (ASS) and specialized hospital unit (CHS), as well as a hemodialysis unit.The project brings together several partners: New Caledonia, the contracting authority which is financing the bulk of the project via the Health and Social Agency, the State, under development contracts, the North Hospital Center (CHN), which will operate the hospital, the North province, and the Specialized Hospital Center. AFD is operating alongside Caisse des Dépôts to finance the respective shares of the ASS and CHN in the project. The delivery of the Koné health center is scheduled for October 2017, with a commissioning in 2018.