SCOTLAND'S biggest ever hospital removals project will get underway early next year.
The Business Moves Group has landed a six-figure deal to relocate beds and medical equipment from the Western Infirmary, the Victoria Infirmary and Yorkhill Children's Hospital to the new £842million South Glasgow University Hospital.
Both the new 1,109-bed adult hospital and the 265-bed children's hospital are due to be completed by early next year.
After the buildings are handed over to the health board on January 26, the company will begin moving thousands of pieces of medical equipment and furniture to the new unit.
The process is expected to be completed by the end of August 2015, by which time the new hospitals will be up and running.
The removals project will also include relocating hospital and office equipment from the old Southern General and the Victoria's Mansionhouse Unit to the new hospital.
The health board would not give an exact figure for the contract but said it was between £250,000 and £350,000.
All moves are scheduled to be completed by June 30 2015.
The health board said the old hospitals will run in tandem with the new hospitals for a short time.
The new 14-floor adult hospital will incorporate state of the art facilities for emergency and for critical care.
Each ward will have 28 single rooms, all with en-suite facilities.
The hospital will be physically linked to the new children's hospital and maternity building, representing the "gold standard" of healthcare.
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