An IGSS-UNOPS agreement

About the Program

In April 2020, IGSS and UNOPS signed the agreement for the implementation of the second phase of the Master Plan for the Modernization of Hospital Infrastructure and Equipment of the Guatemalan Social Security Institute, through UNOPS, to be developed between 2020 and 2025.

The first Phase of the Master Plan for the Modernization of the Hospital Infrastructure and Equipment of the Guatemalan Social Security Institute was carried out from 2007 to 2014, with a budget of more than USD 66 million, and 17 works were carried out. Among these are the Hospital Nacional de Occidente in Quetzaltenango and the Hospital of Puerto Barrios.

OBJECTIVE

To increase health care coverage through infrastructure that improves and brings health services closer to the 3.2 million Social Security beneficiaries in Guatemala.

Components of the Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Includes

Modular Units in Escuintla and Zone 11
Design of the Hospital Regional de Oriente in Zacapa.
Design of the Hospital de Arrivillaga of zone 5 of the capital city.
Incorporation of BIM into all infrastructure projects.

Progress and scope

100 %

Modular Units in zone11, Guatemala City, and Escuintla

100 %

Design Hospital Regional de Oriente in Zacapa

80%

of Hospital de Arrivillaga

Medical equipment

Includes

Acquisition of state-of-the-art medical equipment for new hospitals, and replacing equipment in existing units.
Acquisition of an approximate of 100 ambulances.
Installation of equipment, as well as training IGSS personnel on its use and maintenance.

Progress and scope

Equipped Medical Units

2,471

Equipment Delivered for COVID-19 Care

Ambulances

10,425

Medical Equipment Delivered

Technology modernization

Atención a distancia utilización de sondas

Includes

Technology infrastructure update for modernization of:
1. User services (upgrading office equipment, etc.)
2. Business services (improving and developing systems and applications).
3. Data services (acquiring and modernizing technology infrastructure).
Implementing innovative solutions such as Telemedicine and Imaging

Advances and Scope

3328

Desktop PCs

100 %

Exadata Project

Departments Benefited by Telemedicine

Transversal axes

Transversal program areas

The transversal axes of the INFRAIGSS Program are areas of work included that provide support, advice, and recommendations to all the components of the INFRAIGSS Program.

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SDGs met by the program

Thanks to the joint IGSS-UNOPS effort, IGSS builds its capacities in an efficient, effective, and transparent way with high international standards, in addition to being linked to the sustainable development goals so that no one is left behind: