This is a new commitment of the Ministry of Health that is specified in the unification and improvement of pediatric consultations in San Diego, as well as the adequacy of the UME in the case of Sutullena.
The works will be carried out in summer, taking advantage of the decrease in demand and avoiding interfering in the correct development of the operation of the services.
The Councilor for Health in the City of Lorca, María del Carmen Ruiz, has indicated that the announcement made by the Murcian Health Service (SMS) on the completion of improvement works this summer at health centers in San Diego and Lorca-Sutullena, is very good news for all Lorca, which will result in an improvement and modernization of our health infrastructure.
Jódar Ruiz noted that the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia (BORM) publishes today the announcement of the tender for the reform works of the health center of San Diego and the adequacy of the premises allocated to the Medical Emergency Unit ( UME) in the Lorca-Sutullena health center.
We are talking about a joint investment that exceeds 480,000 euros.
From the City of Lorca we will continue working to ensure that Lorca have more and better and better resources in health, both in the care aspect and infrastructure.
The work of the center of San Diego, according to the information provided by the CARM, will be carried out in the space where the Emergency Service of Primary Care was located, which was moved to the health center of Lorca-Sutullena.
The latter center is also being reformed to enable the emergency service facilities.
The general director of healthcare of the SMS, Roque Martinez, highlighted the "substantial improvement" of the attention to the users of the center once the work "we want to carry out in the summer months to cause the minimum inconvenience to the patients and the tasks of the health personnel ".
With this work the pediatric consultations were installed, which were distributed by several floors of the building, in the space where the emergency service was located.
In total, there will be five pediatric consultations with their corresponding toilets for children and a lactation room for mothers.
The investment foreseen in this reform is about 240,000 euros, with an execution period of four months.
In this center it serves more than 30,000 users, which makes it the largest population coverage of the municipality.
Emergency base in Lorca-Sutullena
As for the works that will be undertaken in the health center Lorca-Sutullena, the action consists in the adaptation of the premises destined to emergency base, currently located in a municipal building, with a budget close to 242,000 euros.
They will be executed within two and a half months from the contracting date.
This center has the capacity to serve a population of 12,000 inhabitants.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca