The South Aegean Regional Committee has voted unanimously to approve the second tender report and award the contract for a radiotherapy centre at Rhodes General Hospital. The project has an overall budget of €13.5 million and covers both the new wing and its specialist medical equipment. EKTER, the provisional contractor in the first stage, submitted a bid of €10,812,829.78 before VAT.
Hundreds of islanders currently travel to Attica, and some to Heraklion, for radiotherapy, regional governor Giorgos Chatzimarkos said. Treatment closer to home would ease the financial and emotional strain on patients and their families.
The centrepiece of the new unit is a linear accelerator, specified to meet the requirements of EOPYY, the national healthcare provider, for the treatments it covers. Chatzimarkos said the tender specified the latest technology available in Europe and that the accelerator would be the most advanced in Greece. He credited years of work by people across several organisations.
The contract includes a year of trial operation, maintenance and technical support, giving the hospital time to prepare to take over those responsibilities. Funding comes from the South Aegean Region’s National Development Programme. Financing from the European Investment Bank under the third pillar of the Just Transition Mechanism is also possible.
The next steps are the statutory period for objections and a pre-contract review by the Court of Audit. Construction is targeted to begin in 2027.
