Prešov Hospital Project Faces Half-Billion Euro Cost Overrun Without Funds for Completion
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A major hospital construction project in Prešov is facing severe financial difficulties, with cost overruns reaching approximately half a billion euros and no available funding to complete the facility. The project, which was intended to modernize healthcare infrastructure in Slovakia's third-largest city, has become significantly more expensive than originally planned. Prešov, located in eastern Slovakia near the Polish border, serves as a regional healthcare hub for the surrounding area. The financial shortfall threatens to leave the partially constructed hospital unfinished, raising concerns about healthcare capacity in the region and the management of major public infrastructure projects in Slovakia.