Dubbo Hospital's tired main entrance is getting a facelift as the foundations are laid for the completion of the "biggest emergency department in country NSW".
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The old emergency and medical imaging departments at the front of the hospital have been knocked down to allow front of house work and the expansion of the three-storey Macquarie Building.
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Earlier this year staff moved into what the hospital's director of emergency medicine Dr Daniel Stewart calls the "biggest emergency department in country NSW" in the Macquarie Building, currently about two-thirds of its intended size.
They share the ground floor of the new building with medical imaging staff who are operating new state-of-the-art equipment including an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine.
On Thursday a Health Infrastructure spokeswoman reported of progress.
"The old emergency and medical imaging units have been demolished and the concrete pours for that section have started," she said.
"Front of house work is well underway".
Hansen Yuncken is constructing the Macquarie Building under the state government's $150 million stage three and four redevelopment of the hospital.
"The Macquarie building is on track for completion in 2021," the spokeswoman said.
