The work of the Hospital del Mar Menor future progress on schedule and has already executed more than 60 percent of the facades and roofs, and more than 70 percent of air conditioning and medical gases, thus building be completed later this year.
To this end the Ministry of Health has invested 39.3 million euros so far in the construction of the new health center, which will be standard in the region.
The future hospital has been designed taking into account the population growth rate of the entire region, bringing 160,000 people in reference to the horizon 2019.
Thus, the center initially will house 250 beds, which may reach 314 in accordance with the growth of the population of the area and care needs.
Also, bring new specialties to the existing Hospital Los Arcos, such as neurology, geriatrics and psychiatry.
The surgical area will be expanded and will accommodate ophthalmology, otolaryngology and urology.
You can create a large area of maternal and child.
The new hospital will have between 40 and 50 percent of single rooms, which have the potential for use as a double.
The medical field will continue to cover specific specialist care internal medicine, cardiology, digestive, respiratory, rheumatology, rehabilitation and hematology, and is offered as new benefit neurology, geriatrics and psychiatry.
Also, the surgical area will have anesthesia, general surgery, gynecology, orthopedics and dermatology, with newly created services those ophthalmology, otolaryngology and urology.
In maternal and child will obstetrics, pediatrics and neonatology, while in central new feature is incorporated as the area of critical care and day hospital medical and surgical.
For these reasons, the hospital will have 12 operating multipurpose, 7 delivery rooms and dilation, 12 radiology rooms, 45 post boxes and emergency department between attention and observation posts, 49 outpatients, 29 scans cabinets and 40 posts Medical day hospital (20) and surgical (20) and a complete unit for rehabilitation and physiotherapy.
Building Features
The building, which will cover an area of 57,000 square meters, not including residential and parking facilities, occupies a site of 100,000 square meters located in the hamlet of Torre Octavio Pozo Aledo, which gave the city of San Javier in the region.
In addition, the infrastructure is in an area very close to major road networks in the region.
The new hospital building will be a very decisive, and that will solve the health problems of users and will be geared to the ambulatory activity.
It will be an integrated center, it will be communicated and coordinated with all the resources of the area and abroad.
Be flexible, adapted to seasonal increases in demand and modern, incorporating information technology in health care both in the management.
It will also have capacity for growth, and may be adapted to population changes in the region by allowing expansion of services.
Additional services
The Public Enterprise Infrastructure Management Health of the Autonomous Region of Murcia (GISCARMSA) will provide complementary services to health care such as sterilization, laundry, waste management, restoration and feeding patients, cleaning, disinfection and fumigation and cleaning of roads and gardens, surveillance and security and information service unit.
Source: CARM