According to the CUF executive committee, the new hospital, which will be located in the space next to the Braga Parque shopping centre, will have 12 thousand square metres and will have three operating theatres and 40 inpatient beds.

It will also have an Oncology Day Hospital, Intermediate Care Unit, Permanent Care, Imaging “with state-of-the-art medical equipment” and a “comprehensive range of medical-surgical and technical specialties”.

“This hospital unit will be linked to the CUF network of hospitals and clinics, in order to ensure a comprehensive, integrated and adapted response to all the health needs of the population, with the capacity to serve more than 100 thousand people per year”, states a statement from CUF.

It adds that, with the aim of promoting medical training and research, and thus contributing to the clinical excellence of the hospital, CUF and the University of Minho signed a memorandum of understanding today that foresees the promotion of doctoral programs for doctors from Minho and cooperation in the area of ​​medical education and clinical research, through the School of Medicine of that academy.

CUF emphasizes that the new hospital represents its return to the Minho region, five years after the end of the public-private partnership with the Hospital de Braga.

“We are back with the same approach that we used for 10 years at the Hospital de Braga: with a distinctive project and clinical quality, with strong integration into the community and close collaboration with the university”, said the president of the CUF Executive Committee.

For Rui Diniz, the new hospital in Braga represents an “important” step in the expansion and consolidation strategy of the CUF network.

With a network of 30 hospitals and clinics in 22 municipalities and more than 15 thousand employees, in 2023, CUF carried out more than 2.9 million consultations, more than 43 thousand teleconsultations, 10 million exams, more than 451 thousand emergencies, more than 64 thousand surgeries, more than 4 thousand births, 70 thousand radiotherapy sessions and more than 14 thousand chemotherapy sessions.