The Center also offers emergency service, PCES, 24 hours a day
The Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios, and the mayor of Mazarrón, Francisco Blaya, today inaugurated the facilities of Mazarrón Health Center, which will give health care to 25,000 people.
A building in which the Health Service of Murcia has carried out a renovation and expansion of units whose implementation has invested 3.2 million euros.
Palacios said that "the work has broadened the space in about 1,000 square feet, and said" it has actually built a new facility that will meet the basic needs of primary care for the population, better accessibility and livability " .
The Minister of Health also stressed the "great effort" by all professionals in the center, both primary care and the emergency department during the time taken remodeling work, as he said, "have had to adapt to a smaller space, with all that implies loss of comfort and space in consultations and common areas, and the effort to increase the evening activity. "
Moreover, Palacios acknowledged "the good cooperation of patients in this temporary situation."
The health infrastructure is located in the Avenida de la Constitución de Mazarrón, and has an area of 2,480 sq meters, whereas before it was of 1,533 square meters, spread on the ground floor and two floors.
The Mazarrón Health Center has 11 family physicians, three pediatricians, one stomatologist, 11 nurses, a midwife, a dental hygienist and social worker.
Furthermore, the supply of services is complemented with minor surgery, radiology and inpatient consultations with the specialties of orthopedics, otolaryngology and rehabilitation.
Dependences that are supplemented by administrative areas, and personnel services, and waiting rooms.
The center has been equipped with modern and quality framework that will enable professionals to develop their work in the best conditions for the benefit of all users, and includes a computer network that allows the use of computerized medical records and connection other health centers
24 hour emergency service
The Center also provides emergency service, PCES, which operates 24 hours a day providing coverage to the basic areas of Mazarron and Puerto de Mazarrón.
This service, located on the ground floor are for 10 doctors, 10 nurses and four orderlies.
SUAP surface has also been increased with the redevelopment of downtown and has grown from 226 meters to dispose of 336 square, which has won more than 100 square meters.
The Health Center of Mazarrón is head of the district health service for 38 Mazarrón, which is included in the health area II of Cartagena.
As the Minister of Health recalled, "the municipality of Mazarrón has been significantly improved healthcare supply in the last year" as the extension of this center is coupled with the opening of a new health center at the Port in June this year.
Source: CARM