The Minister of Health and Social Policy stresses, during his visit to the works, the set of investments being made ​​in Area III Health-Lorca
The Minister of Health and Social Policy, Catherine Lawrence, announced today in Lorca, after visiting the site of the new health center Sutullena Lorca, this new health infrastructure services focus Physiotherapy and Dentistry around the town, "allowing gain in quality and efficiency for users. "
Lorenzo recalled that the work of this new health center will involve an investment for the Department of 4,233,697.84 euros, and resumed on 23 April after a period of suspension caused by a series of economic and administrative problems.
The works will be completed by the end of the year, according to the minister, adding that "after completion, the center will be equipped and initiate consultations".
The health center will Lorca Sutullena nearly 4,000 square meters, of which 2,681 will go to the proper health care that, whether ordinary or emergency, and the rest correspond to the basement, used as a garage and ancillary units.
The building, built in an annex to the mental health center of Lorca Solar, is divided into two buildings, one of which is intended for health center and the other to the emergency room, but share the basement area.
The Murciano Health Service (SMS) has distributed spaces in six areas: family medicine, pediatrics and women's care, specific to this district health and physiotherapy and dentistry, which will serve all the basic areas Lorca health.
District health
Lorca Sutullena is bounded as a basic health area in the health map of the Region of Murcia comprising the Santa Quiteria, Virgen de las Huertas and Sutullena as well as part of the councils of Cazalla, Pulgara, Aguaderas, Carrasquilla Puri and Listen.
All these users are currently served in the specialty center Santa Rosa de Lima by primary care teams Lorca-Center, which has allocated 25,725 individual health cards, so the implementation of the new health center "will be a relief important of the workload, as Lorca Sutullena serve a population of nearly 14,000 people, including peripheral locations. "
Investments in Area III
The Minister of Health and Social Policy said the health center Lorca Sutullena represents a "longstanding goal of both the City of Lorca's own as SMS to improve health care not only in the town, but in the whole of Area III Health ".
However, he recalled the "significant" investments being made throughout the area, which have focused primarily on the Santa Rosa de Lima center, the second phase of remodeling since being drafted, and at the University Hospital General Rafael Mendez.
Regarding the hospital, Lorenzo specified being acted on Pediatric and Obstetrics areas, "with an investment of over six million."
Source: CARM