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The day is approaching where the Sisters of the Poor to return to the Asylum at Cartagena, located in the district of Conception.
At year end, particularly in November, is expected to finish the work Ferrovial rehabilitation of the building he designed in the twentieth century architect Victor Beltrí.
Mayor Pilar Barreiro, Councillor of Social Care, Antonio Calderon and religious groups have found today in situ the progress of work.
Is a complex work because it is a building that is classified and protected and have had to adapt to legal requirements, Barreiro explained after touring the house.
Expected
the elderly to return to Cartagena and take asylum from March next year.
When you return to the building will find it visibly transformed, since the rooms have been expanded and in addition to individual four rooms were built for married couples.
In addition, windows have been changed by the previously filtered rain water, the basement floor has been located and there is laundry and storage.
On the other hand, the Sisters of the Poor have increased the range of activities for seniors and have added to the craft area of occupational therapy. It is very important to keep seniors busy, stressed the superior Sister Maria Dolores Perez.
The total rehabilitation of the building will cost the Little Sisters of the Poor some 13 million euros, representing five million more than expected at first.
However, the religious sense that the price will increase as work progresses.
According to Sister Maria Dolores Perez, is a very old house and as they are working occasional complication, which is what has happened.
And it is also expensive for the equipment. The money is being achieved through donations, as they live reeligiosas providence.
WAITING LIST
The Nursing Home occupies about 10 square meters. Have been built the approaches to the house so they can move without problem the elderly to be in a wheelchair.
The first floor is being spent on the elderly who can not fend for themselves, the second to the more autonomous and third marriages.
The house will occupy 65 retirees from March next year, although the waiting list to inhabit the asylum is enormous, as the sisters. There is a waiting list of over 80 elderly, have been secured.
The requirements for applying for a place in the nursing home is not having financial resources or that their income is below 600 euros.
The work of the Nursing Home began on September 6, 2010.
Since then the retirees living in another residence with the Little Sisters of the Poor in the Region of Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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