Since the ground breaking ceremony for the proposed new state of the art hospital for the Central province two years ago, the construction work on the K700 million health project is yet to start. This is because the Central Provincial Health Authority (PHA) is still waiting on the technical team from the National Department of Health (NDoH) to do the tender evaluation for the best bidder so that construction work for the proposed Central Provincial Hospital can start, hopefully next year, Central PHA Chef Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. James Amini, said they have sent out the tenders for the master planning and design documentation for the Central Provincial Hospital late last year. They are now awaiting the NDoH to choose the best bidder so that they know the total expenditure before the government can negotiate with other foreign governments to help fund the construction of the Central Provincial Hospital. “For example, if it’s going to cost K700 million, than they will have to negotiate for next year’s budget. So that anything on the construction side will be next year.” But in the meantime, Dr. Amini said they have some funds that are available which can be used to go towards installing the power lines and the water system which they plan to acquire from the provincial medical store warehouse by this year. Dr. Amini also stressed that plans are underway to build their office complex in Bautam and not in NCD.