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Date Published: 02/02/2023

New health and emergency centre opens in Algezares

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The new facilities in the Murcian district are five times bigger than the previous centre

New health and emergency centre opens in Algezares

Almost 18 months behind schedule, due in part to the Covid health pandemic, the Murcia district of Algezares has finally opened the doors to its new health and primary care emergency service (SUAP).

The Regional Government has invested 4.4 million euros in the new facilities that cover a surface area of more than 3,800m2, five times larger than the current health centre in the district which is no longer big enough to attend to the area's growing population.

From Monday February 6, the health centre clinic will serve 12,000 patients, and the emergency department a substantial 80,000 people.

The facilities are located very close to the municipal centre of La Rosaleda, and will be staffed by 14 professionals: four doctors and four nurses, as well as a paediatrician, midwife, nursing assistant and an administrative assistant.

Among the new features with respect to the service currently offered, the centre has a "women's care consultation" aimed at maternal education, preparation for childbirth, breastfeeding and preventive and community activities, among others, as well as a breastfeeding room.

There are also four family consulting rooms, one for paediatrics, three for nursing, one for paediatric nursing and two multi-purpose consulting rooms, as well as a room for cures and treatments, another for technical extractions and one for diagnostic techniques and special procedures.

It will be the primary care centre for 12,015 patients registered in the Murcian districts of Algezares and Los Garres and Lages, "and the building is designed so that it can respond to the population increases that may occur in the coming years", explained the President of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, during its inauguration on Wednesday February 1.

As for the new SUAP, although it's located in the same building, it will have separate facilities and be the emergency centre of reference for the inhabitants of the entire southern coast of Murcia - more than 80,000 potential patients.

It will be staffed by 31 professionals: nine doctors, nine nurses, nine drivers and four orderlies.

As for the old health centre, the Town Hall plans to convert the site into a new 1,900m2 municipal nursery school with 84 places for 0 to 2-year-olds in the district, with an investment of 1.8 million euros.

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