The construction of the High Complexity Reproductive Medicine Unit in the Women’s Hospital and, where the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) will be carried out, would begin in March this year. This would mean a delay of seven months at the start of construction, compared to the date that was expected at the beginning of 2017, which was last August.
As indicated by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), the contract with the construction company began from last year. For four months they said they were designing plans and obtaining constructive permits (they are being processed in the National Environmental Technical Secretariat -Setena- . This phase currently has a progress of 85%. The construction phase is scheduled to begin in March this year and conclude in September. This has a term of 28 weeks, according to tender, for its completion.
The work was awarded last May by the Board of Directors to the construction company Gonzalo Delgado SA, in a consortium with Ingenieros de Centroamérica Ltda and Electrónica Industrial Médica SA (Eleinmsa), and the cost amounts to $2,377,340.
On Wednesday, Hubert May, legal representative of couples who are waiting for the IVF and who maintain a process with the CCSS to give them the treatment, met with representatives of the institution to find a solution to this struggle that they have maintained for several years.
Some 35 couples represented by May asked for an audience with the Executive President of the CCSS, Fernando Llorca, in September, in view of the breach of the deadline given by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH), that as of September 11th, 2017 the CCSS must already be providing the service.
The couples requested that the institution pay the procedure on the outside. After the meeting on Wednesday, May commented that a proposal was made in this regard.
The CCSS will immediately begin the process of treatment and medical diagnoses for the demanding couples. There are 35 couples and it is expected that by September they will be able to do the IVF. I hope that this year there are already pregnancies by FIV in the CCSS,”
said the lawyer.
According to him, it is important to emphasize that they closed the negotiation process successfully and now what follows is the implementation of the agreement.