New Brunswick scales back capital spending, health department capital budget to be $123.8M in 2019-20

New Brunswick’s government tabled a $600-million capital budget with a focus on returning to balanced budgets by 2020 or sooner. The biggest spending in 2019-2020 is $321 million to maintain transportation infrastructure. Almost $124 million goes to healthcare infrastructure, with capital budget including:

• $10.8 million for construction of the new Centre of Excellence, a provincial mental health treatment centre for youth in Campbellton;
• $13.7 million for continuing work on the addition of a surgical suite and renovations at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton;
• $15.8 million for the maternal newborn unit project at the Moncton Hospital.
• $33.9 million for continuing additions and renovations at the Chaleur Regional Hospital in Bathurst; and
• $15 million for an addition and renovation project at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton.

The following projects will be delayed:

• The coronary care unit project at the Moncton Hospital;
• Refurbishment of the intensive care, surgical and oncology units at the Saint John Regional Hospital; and
• A maternal newborn renovation project at the Edmundston Regional Hospital.

Related:
Budget d’immobilisations du ministère de la Santé pour 2019-2020 - Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick