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Originally Posted by Slava
Sure but how many hospitals have we built in the last decade in Alberta? Not one a year? We certainly don't build brand new highways once a year and a project like the twinning of highway 63 is a one-time event.
We end up having to do enormous infrastructure spends in part because of the binge and purge nature of our budgeting though. The most glaring example is the situation with the new South Calgary Health Campus; Klein blew up the General Hospital and literally within weeks beagn speaking about the need for another hospital.
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By my count, there are about 90 hospitals in Alberta. Some are bigger than others, but we are building and renovating some every year. As far as I know, the oldest hospital in Alberta is Beaverlodge which is 57 years old. That means that roughly 1.5 new hospitals are built every year. A focused plan should be in place to spread them out and stay on top of it.