„When two years ago I took office as a caretaker minister, the National Children's Hospital was in a state further behind the “Hemus“ highway. There was an unsuccessful choice of building, some millions were given again for engineering, for designing something that could not happen. However, the worst thing is not the money, but the lost time.“
This is what he said in the show “This morning“ the former minister of regional development arch. Ivan Shishkov.
According to him, so far a lot of time has been wasted in building a Children's Hospital, for which there has actually been a lack of real attitude to do it.
„One year later, we already have a field. A plot of 40 acres, in which we also have 15 acres of forest. Land for which we managed to create a town planning status. We were able to make a deal with a private owner to broadcast the property. We received donations of 15 acres from the Metropolitan Municipality. Thus, we collected quite a good field for Children's Hospital – real, new, modern“, added Shishkov.
He stated that he was constantly criticized that this pitch was not suitable because it was not communicative.
„This is not true – the place is close to the future development of the Southern Arc of the Ring Road, which we have also all been waiting for 10 years,”, emphasized arch. Shishkov.
„In the end, the easiest remained. The buildings to be demolished. The other thing to do at this stage was a detailed design brief. Right now we could have started designing the hospital. "We lost a year," he added.
In his words, the design assignment was started by the former Minister of Health Asen Medjidiev.
„The most important thing is that we left a ready ground and a future for the development of the Children's Hospital”, said Ivan Shishkov.