Following the approval at the ordinary plenary session on Wednesday 29th of a collaboration protocol between the Mijas Town Hall and the Andalusian Government for the construction in the municipality of a high resolution process centre (CARP, which includes a health and speciality centre), the delegate of the Andalusian Government in Malaga, Patricia Navarro, announced on Thursday 30th some of the characteristics of this infrastructure which, she pointed out, will be very similar to the one to be built in El Palo. 

At a press conference, Navarro recalled that, like the centre planned for the district of Málaga, “the Mijas centre is also a building that has been in great demand and committed for years and has undergone different changes in terms of its layout and typology”. In this sense, she pointed out that the collaboration agreement that will soon be signed by the Junta and the Mijas Town Hall dates back to the previous term of office, “when with the then mayor of Mijas [Josele González] an agreement was reached to set up a collaboration protocol in which the Town Hall undertook to make land available and construct the building so that the Junta could subsequently provide it with material”. 

Change of location

One of the changes to the initial project has been the change of location of the plot that will house the building, which is now projected on a plot of 12,365 square metres in the area of Parque de Las Lagunas II (between IES Vega de Mijas and Parque Miramar). The Mijas government team have argued that the location of the plot, in an area classified as non-floodable, “will reduce bureaucratic hurdles and speed up the construction of the centre”.

According to Navarro, the idea is to unify in this new centre ‘services that are dispersed’ with the aim of tending “towards this model of a single act primary health care service that the Regional Ministry of Health intends to progressively implement in our autonomous community”, with both Mijas and El Palo being the settings for these pioneering experiences. 

In this way, if a patient goes for a consultation with their general practitioner or is admitted to this centre as an emergency and needs a series of medical tests, they will have the possibility of having these tests carried out in the same building, where they will be checked by the specialist and, thus, in a single visit, the patient will have a diagnosis and treatment for their ailment. A care model that, according to Patricia Navarro, “was a utopia, something that has been talked about a lot within the Andalusian Health Service, an aspiration that we could only achieve by setting up these pilot projects that are going to be implemented in Mijas and El Palo”.

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