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The mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, has demanded from the Ministry of Health "the reopening of the medical offices that are still closed in the municipality despite having completed the actions indicated by the CARM, to adapt them to the conditions set by the health authorities, for the protection of workers and users ". The mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, reported this morning of the completion of the work on the offices of Puente La Pía, Aguaderas, La Hearing and El Consejero ". The mayor of Lorca has detailed that "the work in these clinics has been carried out with municipal investment of more than 75,000 euros, despite the fact that we do not have direct responsibilities in health.

Since the Ministry of Health authorized the reopening of the medical offices after closure have been executing the actions indicated by the CARM, to adapt them to the conditions set by the health authorities, for the protection of workers and users " Diego José Mateos has specified that "the necessary improvements for the reopening of the Puente La Pía office have involved a municipal investment of 14,991.90 euros and have consisted of the internal remodeling of the office in order to get a consultation to isolate a potential user infected with Covid to protect other users and health personnel ". Mateos Molina added that "the existing storage and cleaning area has also been expanded to turn it into an isolation room and the division of the toilets and the lobby to locate the new warehouse and cleaning area.

In addition, the existing fixed glassware has been replaced by the installation of sliding windows in the waiting room to provide the center with good ventilation, nonexistent in the previous state of the office ". The Mayor has also referred "to the improvements carried out in the Aguaderas office, for an amount of 14,350.60 euros, for the internal remodeling of the office in order to get a consultation to isolate a user infected with covid ". The mayor explained that "it has been necessary to restructure the set of buildings owned by the City Council attached to the medical office, such as the pharmacy first-aid kit and the canteen of the social premises, to provide the medical office with a new consultation with exterior ventilation for isolation and care of suspicious patients.

Covid contagion.

In addition, this remodeling has allowed a small expansion of the waiting room.

" In the case of the La Hearing practice, with an investment of 4,790 euros, the office has also been remodeled to obtain a consultation in which to isolate a potential infected user and protect other users and health personnel and a non-existent warehouse in the previous state. The administration area has been changed to enable it as a room for the isolation and care of patients suspected of contagion, construction of a warehouse, and restructuring of the toilets and the cleaning area to separate the toilets of the users from those of the health personnel, as well as a separate room for waste and cleaning. As for the El Consejero office, the multipurpose area of ??the social premises has been restructured to provide the office with a large waiting room, where the safety distance of users can be maintained, leaving the previous area of ??the conference room free.

hopes to generate a space that allows the mobility of both users and health personnel minimizing risks, some works that have had a municipal investment of 1,510 euros. In this way, Diego José Mateos, has insisted that "all these facilities are already at the disposal of the Murcia Ministry of Health so that, depending on the evolution of the epidemiological situation and the availability of personnel, they decide to resume the service doctor for the neighbors of these districts, which we hope will be as soon as possible to be able to unload some of the saturated health centers of workload ". In addition to these actions, since June the City Council has carried out other works in the offices of Purias, La Hoya, Morata, Tercia, as well as the revision of the air conditioning systems of all the offices according to the anti-coronavirus protocols, and the installation of protective screens in the administration areas of the 23 peripheral clinics in Lorca.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca