The construction work of the new health center in the urban area of the municipality of El Sauzal it is resumed a year after its stoppage “to update the project and adapt it to regulatory changes,” according to the local government. The mayor of the municipality, Mariano Pérez (CC), welcomes the restart of work and trusts that the new center can finally be available in the middle of next year 2022.
Mariano perez It details that the action is carried out “by 40%”, so it trusts that the works, which were initially awarded for 851,100 euros to the company Luis Olano Construcciones SL, can be completed in an approximate period of six months. For President Sauzalero, «this work is so important that we had it in the electoral program since 2007. First we were caught by the economic and real estate crisis of 2008 and then came the pandemic of the Covid-19, but it has finally started up again and we hope to have it available to the neighbors in the second half of next year ».
The new building, which is built on a plot donated by the El Sauzal City Council in a former public parking lot, it is located right in front of the current local doctor’s office. The new building will consist of a single plant of 350 square meters with two differentiated entrances: one general and one for emergencies.
An initial budget of 851,000 euros
This action had an initial budget of 851,100 euros. The new building is built on a plot donated by the City Council, just in front of the current office.
The future property will have an admission and administrative management area; a service area with six different consultations, four for adults and two for the Pediatric area, in addition to their respective waiting rooms and toilets. An emergency area, a warehouse, several technical rooms, and rooms for the staff of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS). The current office is located, for more than 22 years, in a municipal-owned building that is insufficient to meet current healthcare demands and that it is not possible to expand to allocate more space for healthcare consultations, which makes it difficult to improve the portfolio of services and increase healthcare activity in this population which has almost 9,000 residents.
