No 991 Monday 2nd - Sunday 8th October 2023
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here will be no expansion of the Aguamarina health centre, the only facility that currently serves Orihuela Costa’s 30,000 + residents. The project, inherited from the previous PSOE government, is not among the priorities of the PP-Vox coalition.
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According to Irene Celdrán, the Councillor for Health, the commitment of the current council is for the construction of a second health centre in a totally different location from that currently positioned between Cabo Roig and Campoamor. This was confirmed by the councillor during the ordinary plenary session last Thursday in response to a motion presented by the PSOE, that was rejected with the votes of PP and Vox.
EXPANSION OF ORIHUEL A COSTA MEDICAL CENTRE SCRAPPED
The Socialist councillor, and former head of the municipal Health area, Luis Quesada, stated that he had already made all the preparations to carry out the transfer to Valencia of a plot of land attached to the Aguamarina health centre that residents and market traders currently use as a parking lot. Even the previous Consell President, Ximo Puig announced, that the drafting of the project would go out to tender last May, although it was a commitment that he failed to meet. Councilor Celdrán said that she is very much against this project, arguing that it is not the right location and highlighting that the implementation of this measure would generate a problem with parking in the surrounds of the medical centre next summer. She recognised that the current medical facility in Aguamarina is "far too small" and that "we all agree that it is necessary to urgently enlarge the health system on the coast."
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