{"id":40057,"date":"2001-05-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-05-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/easier-to-build-new-than-repair-the-old-says-minister\/"},"modified":"2001-05-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-05-10T01:43:56","slug":"easier-to-build-new-than-repair-the-old-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/05\/10\/easier-to-build-new-than-repair-the-old-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Easier to build new than repair the old, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Works Minister Miguel Vargas justified the construction of ten 50-bed &#8220;smart hospitals&#8221; by a Florida based company on grounds that it is easier to build new hospitals than to repair the old. The health care centers have a minimal cost of almost US$50 million. Vargas said the Ministry does not have the budget to repair the old centers so they have to find fresh sources of funds to supply the nation&#8217;s health needs. The government has contracted a loan with a Florida company to build the hospitals, which  would be the company?s first project of this kind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Works Minister Miguel Vargas justified the construction of ten 50-bed &#8220;smart hospitals&#8221; by a Florida based company on grounds that it is easier to build new hospitals than to repair the old. The health care centers have a minimal cost of almost US$50 million. Vargas said the Ministry does not have the budget to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/05\/10\/easier-to-build-new-than-repair-the-old-says-minister\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}