The Government team in Mijas has taken a further step towards making progress as regards the building of the future hospital in the municipality. Last Tuesday the 24th, the mayor, Josele González (PSOE), and the first deputy mayor, José Carlos Martín (Cs), announced that they would submit a motion during the ordinary plenary session for the month of January with the intention to urge the Andalusian Regional Government to sign an agreement whereby the Mijas Town Hall would be responsible for building the infrastructure while the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) would be responsible for providing it with equipment, staff and running and maintaining it. The motion was approved during the plenary session held the following day, with the votes in favour of the entire corporation, other than the Partido Popular which abstained. It therefore proposes to the Regional Government of Andalusia, which is competent in matters of health, that the Mijas Town Hall takes charge of the construction of the building itself, covering the cost with savings in the municipal budgets. The mayor considered that the health situation in the municipality “needs an urgent response”: “we have been suffering the saturation of the health services in our town for years now, with insufficient infrastructures for the size of the  population in Mijas. This situation has worsened in recent years”. In order to find a solution to this problem, González stated that the local government is working on different options to ensure that “the hospital will finally become a reality”. In this regard, he recalled that in 2019 the Mijas Town Hall “provided several plots of land to be studied by the Andalusian  Government”, and “has not yet received a response on the suitability of these”. The mayor added: “A further step has been taken with this agreement that would make the construction and start-up of the hospital possible and which is “similar to the proposals signed with other municipalities such as Estepona”. The mayor assured that this agreement “is essential”, as “the Town Hall has no authority in health matters” and this is “an offer that seeks to reach out and find a solution to this very serious situation affecting public health”.  “The local government in Mijas  is willing to collaborate and always has been. We have the funding to build it because the responsible financial management that we have been implementing for the last seven years in the Town Hall has meant that we have gone from ‘being in the red’, to now having savings. However, we obviously need the collaboration of the Andalusian Regional Government”, added Martín, who emphasised that “a hospital cannot be built to later leave it empty and without doctors, which is why the commitment of the regional administration to provide it with material and health professionals once it is built is fundamental”. In addition, the first deputy mayor stressed that “the Town Hall has asked the Regional Government on numerous occasions to pronounce itself on the suitability of the proposed land, but it has not replied”. The motion also asks the ‘Junta’ to issue the environmental report required to finally approve the modification of the General Urban Development Plan (PGOU) in order to change the classification of the proposed land next to Avenida de Andalucía, considered by the mayor to be “the most suitable” for the hospital building.

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