Pinilla will mobilize to request a health center after 14 months of paralysis of the remodeling of the current
The residents of the Pinilla neighborhood, in the Leonese municipality of San Andrés del Rabanedo, are called on December 14, at 7:00 p.m., to a concentration at the health center to demand the construction of a new sanitary infrastructure, after of 14 months of paralysis of the remodeling works that began in the spring of 2021. The Councilor for Social Welfare and Health in the San Andrés del Rabanedo City Council, Liliana Izquierdo, explained today at a press conference that, once The rehabilitation works of the health center began, the health services were transferred to the San Juan de Dios Hospital, but in September 2021 these works were “paralyzed” due to a “structural problem” in the building.
After several conversations with the Ministry of Health of the Junta de Castilla y León, from the City Council they have regretted that “there has been no response” about the stoppage of these works and, in response to the demand for the construction of a new health center, ” The decision is that there will not be a new building, but neither will the reform continue” of a health center that treats 20,000 health cards.
For this reason, the Pinilla Neighborhood Association has announced a new mobilization because “there is not a single piece of information about it” and “there are several commitments not acquired”, both by the previous heads of the Ministry of Health and by the current, after the electoral advance of February and the change of government. “The lack of communication is total and absolute,” denounced the mayor, who explained that the City Council has “approached” the PSOE attorneys for León in the Cortes of Castilla y León.
PARLIAMENTARY INITIATIVES
In this sense, the socialist attorney Yolanda Sacristán has announced that, with the aim of “fighting to avoid this botch”, her parliamentary group has presented a battery of questions on “the reason for not restarting the works or if any solution is in mind “, in addition to a parliamentary question that could enter the next plenary session of the Cortes or the request for the appearance of the Minister of Health, Alejandro Vázquez.
In addition, amendments to the General Budgets of the Community have been presented to try to solve this situation of “mistreatment” of the municipality. “The Board intends to patch up an old building, which has been found to have serious deficiencies”, which is why it has been in favor of “a new, well-equipped center that offers the best services”.
For his part, the president of the Pinilla Neighborhood Association, David González, has called for an “independent technical report” that reveals the state of the structure of the current health center building, whose remodeling work is paralyzed, to avoid ” build a health center on rubble”.
