The center has 394 square meters useful and work two family physicians, a pediatrician and two nurses
The Minister of Health and Social Policy, María Ángeles Palacios, today inaugurated by the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, the new primary care center (CAP) of the trough, which initially will serve about 2,000 patients, but is sized to serve about 4,000 patients.
Thus, Palacios said that "the center can absorb population growth in the coming years."
The opening of this new center, located in an urban expansion area of ​​Cartagena, involves the closure of the San Jose Clinic of premises available to old and obsolete.
Therefore, citizens attached to the San Jose Clinic, as well as residents in neighboring areas will be addressed in the CAP of the trough.
The Ministry of Health and Social Policy has invested a total of 404,000 euros to build and provide equipment to enable the CPC, said Palacios, who Cartagena neighborhood residents of the valley do not have to move to the San Jose Clinic Workers In the case of adults, and Mills Health Center Marfagones for children.
In the CAP of the trough will perform their duties two family physicians, a pediatrician and two nurses.
This, explained the minister, "is to improve infrastructure and services."
The building has a floor area of ​​440 square meters, 394 meters square of them are useful in the ground floor.
Palacios said that consultations have two Family Medicine, one of Nursing, one of Pediatrics, Nursing a Child, one of extractions and Cures, and three modules waiting rooms.
The Minister of Health concluded that "it is a modern, built with vision, and extending its services to meet the best way possible to the needs of the neighbors."
Source: CARM