The project to build a medical centre in the largest municipality of eastern Luxembourg is still underway, Mayor Romain Reitz and the director of the Hôpitaux Robert Schuman Foundation (FHRS), Georges Heirendt, confirmed on Wednesday.
Read also: New medical centre to include MRI scannerThe municipality still has to implement a few minor changes in the general development plan (PAG). Heirendt explained that the Ministry of Home Affairs initially rejected the letter of intent signed between the municipality of Junglinster and the FHRS in February 2021. The two parties then amended the text and referred to the law on outpatient care expansion.
The municipal council will vote on the project for a second time, before it is resubmitted to the relevant authorities. It is not yet known when the required authorisations will be granted. The municipality and the FHRS both stress that the project will be continued and that “nothing stands in the way” of that goal.
The FHRS has already gotten in touch with architecture firms to work on plans. “Anything that we can prepare in the background, we’ve already done,” Heirendt said, adding that they are collaborating with the doctors.
The medical centre in Junglinster, like the one in Potaschberg/Grevenmacher, will be overseen by a hospital. The Hôpitaux Robert Schuman will grant access to its patient files to the freelance doctors who will eventually work there. That way, patients could be transferred to the hospital in Kirchberg following an MRI scan in Junglinster.
