Five funds have shown interest in acquiring three unfinished buildings in the immediate neighbourhood of the St. Ekaterina and Alexandrovska hospitals in Sofia, Health Care Minister Radoslav Gaidarski said on April 8, as quoted by Bulgarian news agency BTA.
The legal status of the buildings, which were meant to serve as hospitals, had to be changed, allowing public-private partnerships in which investors would finish construction and manage the buildings, Gaidarski argued.
The procedure is yet to be started and would take six months to complete, he added.
One building, spreading over 36 000 sq m, was intended as a children' hospital, but if completed, only two or three floor would be used to house clinics, with the investor deciding what to do with the rest, according to Gaidarski.
The total cost of completing construction of the three buildings was 100 million leva.
