Saaremaa developing plan to build new hospital in Kuressaare with EU support 2021-01-10 BNS/TBT Staff TALLINN - The largest Estonian island of Saaremaa has a plan to build a new hospital in Kuressaare with the support of the European Union that would meet the needs of the county's residents in the coming decades as well, the regional Saarte Haal writes. "Although everything related to the construction of the new hospital is still hypothetical and no decision has been made yet, a plan does indeed exist," Kalle Laanet, Saaremaa rural municipality council member and chairman of the supervisory board of Kuressaare Hospital, said. "After all, we must be guided by what our people will need also in the future, in the coming decades."