The entrance area of Internal Medicine II patients on the second floor of the Hospital Rafael Méndez de Lorca back to normal starting tomorrow at 8:00 am when they enter the first patients.
Repair work and painting the entire area affected by smoke from the fire last Saturday have been completed in less than ten days, and assured the Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios.
The area, with 34 hospital beds will be opened almost completely, as the area of the room where the fire occurred and the adjacent rooms remain closed in this area continue the repair work, as the fire affected one way more important.
It is open 28 inpatient beds, which will host a new income patients, as most of the 16 patients who were transferred to the Hospital Virgen del Alcázar de Lorca and are discharged, although it is possible that one again starting tomorrow.
The damage forced the plant to do three coats of paint throughout the area of Internal Medicine II, which is painted exactly as it was before the fire.
The work lasted only a week and concluded today.
The plant will not open until tomorrow to wait a reasonable time to drive out the smell of paint.
Source: CARM