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The new health center in Santa Rosa de Lima, who today visited the minister, will take center Lorca services and serve more than 32,000 citizens
Palacios says that without the involvement of professionals in the SMS and the IMAS "would be impossible to evacuate hospitals and nursing homes in just over two hours"
The Ministry of Health and Social Policy in Lorca has invested 2.4 million euros, with the aim of rectifying the damage caused by the earthquakes of May 11, 2011.
The owner of this counseling, Maria Angeles Palacios, who visited the city today to check the status of some projects, such as the Health Center of Santa Rosa de Lima, said "the effort to restore the damaged infrastructure and to standardize care health and social care to Lorca. "
Palacios valued at 3.6 million damage from the earthquake in the facilities Murcia Health Service (SMS) and Murcia Institute for Social Action (IMAS), both agencies under his department.
Specifically, he referred to the important transformation experienced in the health center in Santa Rosa de Lima, whose works completed visited today.
In this center moved all services at the health center to center Lorca was the most affected by seismic forcing its complete demolition.
Now, the new downtown Santa Rosa in the future will become a specialty center for Lorca, once built to replace the demolished Lorca Centre serves a population of 32,000 citizens and it also depend clinics Aguaderas, Campo Lopez, Cazalla, The Wire, Puente La Pia, Purias, Ramonete and Morata.
The reformation consisted, according to Palacios, the adaptation of plants to all inquiries and other health services and improving access, both from the outside, with the opening of a new door, and inside, with the installation elevator.
It has also renovated the interior partitions and spaces have been redeployed "to ensure adequate attention to all users."
The Minister said that "the equipment of the center will be completed soon so you can start working at full capacity soon."
The involvement of professionals
Maria Angeles Palacios remarked that "365 days after the tragedy, considering the magnitude of it, and the economic situation, which prevents us from having all the resources that would be desirable, we can say that everything is working regularly and with full guarantees for users of the health system and social services. "
In this regard, he insisted that everything has been "through the involvement unprecedented public employees assigned to this advice, the SMS and the IMAS, and understanding and patience that Lorca expressed from the first moment," adding that "this attitude has given us especially the job."
A year after the earthquake, Palacios reiterated the thanks to all who made possible the evacuation of the hospital and nursing homes in just over two hours.
He recalled that in the assist device 298 ambulaciones participated and 1,500 health professionals and social policy, "allowing us to evacuate in less than two hours at the 392 hospital patients and Virgin Rafael Mendez Alcazar, as well as 305 people Sunday residences over Sastre, Caser Alameda and San Diego Foundation and the 72 residents with disabilities Asprodes-the Servants, who in less than five hours and were relocated to other centers in the region. "
Public health checks on refugee camps by the earthquake, where there were more than 500 vaccinations MMR and varicella, and prioritization of aid from the Law Unit for the people of Lorca, affected not to see their rights in the midst of a dramatic situation, were other urgent actions referred by the Minister in his visit today to Lorca.
The most relevant
The Minister stressed the urgent action on Rafael Mendez hospital and health centers Santa Rosa de Lima, who accepted from the first moment Lorca Services Center, San Diego and Lorca South and in the center of Mental Health, and to date a total investment of 1.9 million.
In this regard, he stressed that "in five days were restored more than half of affected care health services, except for South Lorca reopened on July 27," adding that "in just over a month, hospital activity was restored almost a hundred percent, but two operating rooms that were reopened in February. "
Infrastructure and services in Social Policy, according to Palacios, IMAS has invested 575,000 euros, intended mainly to repair and reopen the residence Sunday Sastre and commuting expenses for the users of Lorca Day Centre to Puerto Lumbreras, where they were welcomed temporarily.
"In less than three months, all users of the residence Sunday Sastre, who had been relocated to other residences in the region, and the Day Center, and were located in the residence lorquina after rehabilitation, to the relief of own residents and their families, "said the minister.
A job that does not stop
Maria Angeles Palacios said that "we will continue working for Lorca and Lorca," adding that "on the bench have the construction of health center Lorca Centre, which will exceed six billion euros, and reconstruction of Day Centre and Social Centre for the Elderly, for which we are in contact again with the Insurance Compensation Consortium, for a new assessment of damage in the building that can not be accessed. "
The Minister said that so far his department has only received the State and the Insurance Compensation Consortium 1.5 million, one for SMS and 500,000 euros for the IMAS.
Source: CARM
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