Health Infrastructure Minister John Carey is adamant the new women’s and babies hospital in Murdoch will be delivered by 2029 but has left the door open for cost blowouts as he revealed the design for the $1.8 billion facility.

Carey announced the hospital, being built by Italian builder WeBuild, would be 12 storeys high, contain 274 beds and 2500 new parking bays across two separate car parks.

It will include inpatient facilities for gynaecology and maternity patients, a neonatal unit for newborns, operating theatres, a family birthing centre and outpatient clinics.

Carey brushed aside questions about the cost of the project after a leaked status report from April suggested the facility was tracking to cost more than $1.9 billion, saying that was before the newly formed Office of Major

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