We still have to wait a few more months for the new emergency point outside the hospital in Cordoba to be able to operate at the Levante Sur Health Centre. It will be located on the basis Old Lepanto Barracks Although the construction was completed, it was opened … It has been postponed as ABC has been able to confirm.
Ana Leal, director of the Guadalquivir Health District in Cordoba, confirmed to ABC in July that the facilities were “practically complete,” almost to the point of “starting to use them” in the absence of human resources. That is, hiring and transferring staff to implement it. Initially, the inauguration was scheduled to arrive in the fall, but ABC confirmed it had been postponed until Second half of January.
Bureaucratic problems and staff shortages have affected the opening date of the emergency department at Levante Sur Health Centre. the 62 new custom places For the Guadalquivir area of Cordoba, they will provide the center with more staff to operate the emergency point. There are key specialists in this service such as the driver guard, as well as nurses and specialists. They will arrive on January 1st.
Works began in the first months of 2024 on a budget It exceeded 920 thousand euros For work that took four months, to adapt one of the buildings of the old Lepanto barracks, in the area opposite Sagunto Street, next to the health center of the same name.
Third emergency point
From the end of this year, the new center will have an entrance where the windbreaks will be found. Patients needing care will have a lobby and waiting unit. There will also be an emergency point outside the hospital in Levante Sur Administrative point For people who need medical care.
The Levante Sur Center will be the third non-hospital emergency point operating in Cordoba and will help alleviate the crisis. Overcrowding at the other two points. The Carlos Castilla del Pino Health Center, located next to Arroyo del Morro Street, serves approximately 270,000 people in central and western Cordoba. The center located in the southern sector, next to Cádiz Street, supports more than 82,000 people.