Anita Moreno Regional Hospital

Anita Moreno Regional Hospital is a medium district general hospital near La Villa de Los Santos, Los Santos Province, Panama, run by the Ministerio de Salud. The hospital is located north-west of the village of El Ejido on Belisario Porras Road.

The hospital is under expansion by IBT Group on the site of the previous hospital at a cost of £102.9 million. Building work was started in the year 2012.

Location
The hospital is located on Belisario Porras Road, around 2.7 km to the south-east of La Villa de Los Santos, close to El Ejido. It is surrounded by woodland on two sides.

History
The hospital was built on the site of what was originally a potrero that belonged to Anita Moreno. The site became a hospital in 1970, occupying 2 hectares of a 10 hectares lot.

New hospital
The new hospital will replace both the psychiatric hospital and the specialty hospital. It has 257 beds and provides a full range of clinical services including an Accident and Emergency department. The new hospital is expected to have 257 beds and will cover a population of 100,000 inhabitants in the Azuero region. Due to construction delays, the hospital will not be completed until 2019; it will be the only level 3 or 4 hospital in the region.