Oncology Centre has problems with rainwater seepage

The Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre has problems with rainwater leakage from a terrace and from the hospital’s bridge, a Health Ministry spokeswoman told this newspaper. The newly-built oncology centre was the subject of civil proceedings after a court recently turned down a request for an injunction that would have stopped the government from using a bank guarantee given by the builders to make good for defects. Contacted by this newspaper, the spokeswoman said that the health authorities and BVP Joint Venture – comprising Blokrete, Vassallo Builders and Panta Contracting Ltd – were currently in discussions “over a small number of deficiencies/non-conformities, including a problem of rainwater ingress from a terrace and from the oncology centre’s bridge”. The Health Department is reserving the right to hold the bank guarantee if significant progress is not registered in the coming weeks,  she said. BVP, who had won the tender for the design, development and building of the oncology centre in 2012, filed an application for a warrant of prohibitory injunction on June 13 against the Ministry for Health and the Foundation for Medical Services, among others, unsuccessfully asking...