In a study carried out by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) and carried out after an earthquake that shook the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica, it was concluded that one of the solutions to be able to enable the Monsignor Sanabria Hospital again, evacuated due to the high risk of collapse, is to reduce the number of floors from ten to seven.
As explained by the engineer Jorge Granados, who works for the Directorate of Architecture and Engineering of the CCSS, with this measure it would be possible to remove the overload that falls on the foundations of the building, because the greater the weight the more seismic force the structure will experience.
However, other solutions were proposed in the analysis, one of them is to reinforce with carbon fiber the beams and critical structures of the hospitalization tower.
It should be remembered that after the earthquake of 7.6 degrees of magnitude that occurred on september 5, 2012, the Monsignor Sanabria Hospital was one of the buildings that resulted in the most damage. This earthquake had an epicenter 20 kilometers south of Samara, in Nicoya, Guanacaste.
Finally, after the consideration of the facts and possible solutions, the CCSS engineer assured that in the coming weeks a decision must be reached taking into account what the fate of the tower will be since the construction of the new hospital in Puntarenas is on the way.
