Inuvik and region to see a new $37-million complex
Maria Canton
Northern News Services
Yellowknife (May 18/01) - A construction contract worth $37 million was awarded to the Uummarmiut Development Corporation and the Nihtat Gwich'in Development Corporation on Monday for the building of the new hospital in Inuvik.
Announced by Nellie Cournoyea, chair of the Inuvik Regional Health and Social Services Board, Vince Steen, minister of public works and services, and Jane Gronewegen, minister of health and social services, construction on the 8,700-square-metre facility is expected to start later this month and be completed in the spring of 2003.
Ninety North Partners have been chosen to provide project management on the building that will include a 17-bed acute inpatient care unit, a 25-bed continuing and residential care unit, diagnostic and treatment facilities, a transient centre, emergency health services and social and community health services.
Cournoyea says her board is pleased with co-operation between all parties and the plans to start construction quickly.
The construction phase is expected to provide at least 25 Northerners with the opportunity to pursue apprenticeship training, with an additional 40 regional residents employed in related fields.
