The future health center of La Esperanza already has its first stone. The City Council of El Rosario and the Government of the Canary Islands yesterday they proceeded to the presentation of a work that has an investment of 2.2 million euros and that is 85 percent co-financed by Feder funds Canary Islands. The building will be built on a 650-square-meter plot ceded by the City Council and the execution period is 24 months, according to the data presented during the event this Friday.
“I don’t know whether to pinch myself and whether to believe what is happening today,” said the mayor of Rosario, Escolástico Gil, before recalling that the wait “has been long.” Likewise, he estimated that the clinic serves some 5,000 residents, and recalled that the current one is 35 years old and has numerous deficiencies, which has led to years of demanding a new facility. Also participating in the event were the Vice President and Minister of the Treasury, Budgets and European Affairs of the Government of the Canary Islands, Roman Rodriguez; the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo; the director of the Health Area of TenerifeIgnacio López, and the manager of Primary Care of the Island, José Miguel Rodríguez.
The building will have a total area of 1,025 square meters and will be developed on three floors, which will be connected with a staircase and a stretcher lift, detailed from the Ministry of Health. It will also have an admission and administrative management area, adult care areas with six Family Medicine and Nursing consultations, and a pediatric area with two consultations, “all of them with their own waiting rooms and toilets.” There will be an emergency care area with differentiated access from the outside and all the technical units, such as the generator set, electrical panels, telecommunications and areas for the exclusive use of the staff of the Primary Care centers.
“The saying goes that hope is the last thing to be lost,” the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo, began his speech, aware that the demand for a new health center in La Esperanza is not new. “The current Local Consultorio de La Esperanza is located in a municipally owned building with significant structural limitations where it is not possible to carry out an adequate remodeling to improve its functional conditions or expand its portfolio of services,” said Trujillo, who also stopped at what with the construction of this new health center there will be additional improvements, “Since the new property will allow the incorporation of new profiles of professionals included in the +AP Strategy, such as physiotherapists and clinical psychologists.”
Román Rodríguez was also congratulated for the step taken, who had acquired with Escolástico Gil the commitment to carry out the performance. Rodríguez assured that all the needs raised by the City Council at that time in terms of costs, sanitation, health or education have been met. “We are in the policy to solve problems for people and to fulfill the commitments we make to the public every four years,” said the regional vice president.
One of the peculiarities of the project is that the El Rosario City Council has already thought about expanding it, without even having built the center. It is for this reason that he bought an adjoining piece of land that he will give to the Canarian Health Service.
The Local Consultorio de la Esperanza belongs to the San Benito Basic Health Zone, which includes the population districts of La Laguna, Tegueste and El Rosario. The latter municipality includes the entities and population centers of La Esperanza, Lomo Pelado, Las Rosas, Los Panascos and Las Barreras, as specified by the Government of the Canary Islands.
