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The Murcia Health Service has 83 health centers, and every year the primary care professionals typically serve nearly nine million consultations of Family Medicine and Pediatrics
The Ministry of Health and Social Policy, through Murciano Health Service spent 630,000 euros to launch the first phase of construction of the new Health Centre of San Anton in Cartagena, which will take place on a plot of 2,150 square meters donated by the city of the municipality.
The Minister of Health and Social Policy, Catherine Lorenzo, accompanied by the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, laid the foundation stone of the health infrastructure in primary care with which "aims to further improve the care provided to all citizens of the city port ".
This action, said Lorenzo, "aims to solve the shortcomings of the current Health Center San Antón due to their inability to growth because it is a building that is over 30 years old and serving a Basic Zone Health has 19,000 inhabitants. "
In this first phase, the building will have an area of ​​518.09 square meters and 405.79 sq meters, distributed in a plant.
Thus, the center will have consultations of Pediatrics Area, Area Administrative and Support Services.
Specifically, the Department of Pediatrics Consultations will be staffed with four consultations of Pediatrics, Children three of Pediatrics, a nursing room, a pediatric toilet, two waiting rooms and lobby
At first consulting demand and offer scheduled Pediatrics and collection service, transportation of laboratory samples and return of results and Customer Care.
Later, he added the minister, "other areas provided for this new health center will add".
Primary Care in the Region
The Minister of Health and Social Policy, Catherine Lorenzo, stressed that "primary care is the great strength of the health system because it is the gateway of patients to the system, so for us it is a priority to improve and bring these infrastructures all citizens of our region. "
In this sense, Lorenzo recalled that, at present, in the autonomous community there are 83 health centers in primary care, 180 offices and 48 points Urgent Care where they work, according to the latest data available, more than 2,700 doctors and nurses Murciano Health Service.
The Minister reiterated the "importance" of primary care and have infrastructure for providing a care based on principles of quality and efficiency, "because every year is typically serve nearly nine million consultations of Family Medicine and Pediatrics, and more than four million hits Nursing ".
Source: CARM
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