Antoni Comín, Minister of health, visited today the Vall d'Hebron Hospital Campus and has announced a plan of improvements to the centre planned in the period 2016-2017 and budgeted at more than 34 billion euros. At VHIR laboratories, the Management submitted the new building project, and researchers that received scholarships from the "Amigos de la investigación de Vall d'Hebron" have explained what they are working at.The Minister explained that the Department will conduct, through the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), an action plan in the infrastructure that includes a surgical block with 19 operating rooms, which are under equipment and which will come into operation after summer, and, among other improvements, equipment for the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with 36 beds and 19 boxes for the Reanimation Unit (REA). It is expected to become operational early next year.The Minister also said that one of the "great challenges in short and medium term" will be the transfer of outpatient consultations to a place at the Passeig Vall d'Hebron, on the other side of the Ronda de Dalt. Comín has ensured that soon an executive project will be commissioned that, he has highlighted, is "a major project for improvement in terms of infrastructure for the hospital", which at the same time will "improve the quality with which professionals can make their health care task".During his visit to the hospital complex in Catalonia, the Minister has met with the Executive Direction Committee, with the Physician and Clinical Board, and Nursing Assistants. Comín pointed out "the climate" of the different interviews and also the "desire for dialogue" by the management of the ICS and the Department of the centre.Throughout the morning, Antoni Comín has visited the Emergency Room, the Mother and Child Hospital, different units of the General Hospital and the Hospital of Traumatology, in addition to the Vall d' Hebrón Research Institute (VHIR), the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) and the Centre for Multiple Sclerosis of Catalonia (Cemcat).On the other hand, Comín also reiterated an investment plan for technological renewal - replacement of technological equipment -, is being considered for all centres of health and hospitals in Catalonia that should "be able to recover these past 5 years of insufficient investment within the coming years". At this time the plan is being studied with all the agents involved to analyze what are the "most urgent and essential" measures.