The director of Planning and development of the Health Ministry, Alejandro Solis, says  the government of President Daniel Ortega is boosting the construction of several hospitals.

Solis also announced the building of a general hospital in the capital at a cost of 36 million dollars.He added that the hospital network in the country was seriously deteriorated.
The north of Nicaragua needs building in all the hospitals while the Fernando Velez and Roberto Calderon hospitals in the capital are in disastrous conditions, he indicated.
A hospital in the department of Boaca will soon be inaugurated while installations in the capital are being repaired and new polyclinics will be built throughout the country.
After becoming president in 2007 Ortega eliminated the privatization of the health system set up by the liberal administrations that had governed the country for 16 years.