The health center on La Trinidad Avenue will continue its activity this Thursday, the 28th. ordinary after it was closed this Wednesday preventively by the Primary Care Management of Tenerife, attached to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands. The closure occurred after “a possible movement of the building’s settlement” was detected on Tuesday afternoon.as reported yesterday by the regional Executive in a press release.
«After the visit carried out in the morning by the technicians of the Infrastructure Service of the Canarian Health Service (SCS), it was determined that there is no danger from a technical point of view in the affected area,” Health announced late this Wednesday afternoon. After the analyses, the conclusion was that the center could be reopened “in safe conditions for use.”
Four consultations are closed due to problems on the ground until it is decided what measures to take
So that, activity recovers except in the offices of four consultations located on the first floor, in the affected area, where problems were detected in a part of the ground on Tuesday. The staff of these consultations will be relocated to another area of the property until the actions to be carried out are determined.
The facility, officially named La Laguna Health Center-University, It was closed this Wednesday. «The closure has been adopted preventively until the corresponding technical reports are available. “to guarantee that the safety conditions are met to be able to continue with the activity in the property, which has already been assessed by technicians from the Infrastructure unit since the first hour,” the Ministry of Health stated during the morning.
Asked about this, official sources from the La Laguna City Council indicated that a verification was carried out by Urban Planning. «A technician from the Urban Planning Management carried out a first inspection that morning in which no structural problem was observed in the building today.they stated from the Consistory.
Alternative measures
The non-delayable and urgent care activity that was scheduled for this Wednesday was transferred to the basic health areas of La Laguna-San Benito and La Laguna-Mercedes. These are the centers located in San Benito and around Plaza del Cristo, respectively. These had “with reinforcement of the staff of the Laguna-Universidad health center,” detailed from the Ministry of Health. Delayable consultations were rescheduled and patients were notified of the change in schedule, they added.
Likewise, the Primary Care Management of Tenerife pointed out that the communication of the changes in the in-person consultation was individually informed to the users who had been affected by the measure adopted.
