Amid major ongoing work to upgrade and expand hospitals and health centres across the country, the Government will be establishing a $1-billion Health Infrastructure Maintenance Fund (HIMF) to see to the upkeep of equipment in health facilities.

This was announced by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton on Tuesday during his contribution to the 2026-27 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives.

“We cannot make the same mistake as in the past where we build infrastructure and not maintain it,” Tufton said, while describing the creation of the HIMF as a “more systematic and structured approach to public health infrastructure”.