ALICANTE. Process completed. The Department of Health closes the contracting of the works to build the health center committed in the La Torreta neighborhood (PAU II) by ratifying the pre-arranged award agreement with the construction company Contratas Vilor. The company based in Valencia will be in charge of executing the works after presenting a proposal for an amount of more than 12.8 million (taxes included) and prevail as the best offer compared to those registered by other 23 companies that also participated in the tender.
The agreement clears the ground so the building can become a reality. In fact, the autonomous department that coordinates Marciano Gomez program the start of the performance for next Decemberprovided that the award agreement does not raise any challenge that could lead to a possible delay in compliance with that schedule.
Thus, The health center committed for two terms should be completed and ready to begin providing assistance 20 months later. That is, between August and September 2026. The truth is that this programming already represents a first delay with respect to the last deadline that had been anticipated until now. Initially, it was expected that The works would have started around the month of Junesince the pre-award agreement after the evaluation and classification of the set of proposals presented was reached last April, as reported by this newspaper.
first of three
In any case, the La Torreta health center is thus emerging as the first of the three health facilities pending construction in Alicante that have been included practically year after year in the budgets of the Generalitat since the 2019-2023 mandate, although Its planning began in the previous legislature. The other two are planned for the Garbinet neighborhood and La Condomina, in the Playa de San Juan district.
In reality, the one planned for Garbinet should have been in development since the end of 2022, when its first award was made to a joint venture composed of Ecisa and Joca (both absorbed by the Urbas group). However, the work undertaken since then did not go beyond fencing the site where it will be located, on Médico Vicente Reyes Street. In fact, the current Consell, now made up of the Popular Party (PP) alone, has just promoted the call for a new competition to re-contract the execution of its works, after arranging the resolution of the initial contract in a decision reached by mutual agreement.
For its part, the third facility that must serve the San Juan Beach District continues pending the promotion of the competition to contract their worksonce the drafting of its final execution project is completed. However, Health has just requested a construction license with the purpose that they can deadlines overlap without incurring new delays so that the construction work can be addressed without administrative obstacles at the time the selected contractor is available.
At the same time, the government team of the Alicante City Council, of the Popular Party (PP), intends improve the provision of health care in the southern neighborhoods with the acquisition of a property intended to house the San Gabriel medical officepositioned on the ground floor of a residential building. The acquisition of this new location is one of the investments planned in the budget project drawn up for the next year. Of course, this action would mean ruling out the construction of a new health center in that area that would provide coverage to the neighboring neighborhoods of the southern area of Alicante, as the previous Consell del Botànic had promoted after the registration of a request for the transfer of land to be able to design its construction.
Assistance services
That option would have been, at the very least, shelved, given that there would not be the required volume of health records to justify its construction, according to sources consulted. So for the moment, The possible construction of any other additional health center is not contemplatedapart from the three already listed, and the renovation of the specialty center on Gerona Street, now underway.
Be that as it may, what characteristics will the new equipment designed for La Torreta have? According to the information provided so far during the project processing phase, It is expected to be able to serve a population of 16,600 residents. of La Torreta and the Juan Pablo Segundo neighborhood (PAU I). The building will be located on a plot donated by the Alicante City Council – after several requests and communications crossings with the Generalitat, during the last mandate -, which will be accessed from Cardenal Francisco Álvarez Avenue. It will have an area of 5,500 square meters and it is conceived as an efficient and sustainable building, with practically zero energy consumption.
Among its services, it will have an emergency area or Continuing Care Point and an Extractions and Treatments Area. In addition, you will have Pediatric Area, Rehabilitation Area, Pediatric DentistryFamily Medicine Area, Maternal Area, Sexual and Reproductive Health and an Administrative Area. And finally, it will provide assistance in matters of Mental Health, Attention to Addictive Behaviors and Minor Surgery.