State health services organisation (Okypy) will turn over the old Larnaca hospital to the municipality in September 2024, mayor Andreas Vyras announced on Thursday.
The hospital is currently owned by the state, but will now be given to the municipality, which will lease it out to house several other civil services.
Vyras said the municipality was informed by Okypy that problems with a wing on second floor of the new hospital have been solved.
The services currently offered at the old hospital will move now to the new one.
“According to the information, the contractor has taken over the construction site and preliminary procedures for the preparation of the second floor have already started,” Vyras said.
“At the end of August, early September, it is estimated that the building of the old hospital will be handed over to the Larnaca municipality.”
The mayor added that they will monitor the works of Okypy, and that the municipality hopes to begin works for restoration of the old hospital in March or April 2025.