By Salma Khalik

THE National Heart Centre, now bursting at the seams, is about to get a new $165 million home by 2012.

Tenders have been called for a building three times its current size, a stone's throw away from its present premises in Outram.

The centre's spokesman said the extra space would allow for new facilities such as areas for day surgery and pre-admission testing of patients.

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