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The Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Health, Manuel Padín, accompanied on Wednesday the Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas, and Area II Manager, José Sedes, on a visit to the medical office of La Vaguada where the Regional Government has incorporated a doctor and a nurse to the staff of professionals who provide assistance at the center, which has 3,959 individual health cards attached, which will improve the care of associated patients.

The Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas, has announced that it is “an action of the Program of Action for the promotion and improvement of the Primary Care of the Region of Murcia that is being developed by the Ministry of Health to offer a network sized and trained as one of the main pillars of health and one of the main objectives of the organism to respond to the needs of the users ”.

The Councilor for Health, Manuel Padín, added that it is another step to ensure that health care in the municipality improves and has indicated that “we cannot stay here and we must continue working to add more doctors to those health centers that require an increase in staff to serve users. ”

With the incorporation of the new health personnel, the office goes from having two doctors to three and two nurses to three as well.

Thus, the residents of La Vaguada will have 3 Family and Community Medicine consultations, 2 Nursing, 1 Pediatrics and 1 Child Nursing consultation.

ADAPTATION WORKS

For the extension of the consultations, adaptation works have been carried out in the center for an amount close to 16,000 euros, coming from the regional government.

The office of La Vaguada offers care from Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 15:00 hours.

It has a constructed area of ​​440 m2, 394 meters useful on its ground floor, which has been remodeled to divide the area into two blocks with 3 waiting room modules and in which there is also an extraction and priests room.

This health resource is attached to the Los Molinos Marfagones Health Center, which serves the basic area of ​​the same name, with a reference population of 13,593 inhabitants and on which the clinics of Quarries, Cuesta Blanca, Perín, Los Puertos de Santa Barbara, Tallante, La Magdalena and San Isidro.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena