ARCHIVED - Camposol Private Hospital plans confirmed

Mazarrón will open the new private hospital in 2024, with an investment of 11 million euros and will generate nearly 300 jobs

The municipality of Mazarrón will have a new private hospital by mid-2024, following an investment of 11 million euros by the Mederi Salud group in a complex equipped with operating theatres, consultation rooms and hospital beds and which will generate 80 direct jobs and about 250 indirect jobs.

The spokesman for the business group, Francisco Cánovas, presented the project on Tuesday 14^th June accompanied by the President of the regional government, Fernando López Miras, the regional minister for Health, Juan José Pedreño, and the President of the regional employers' association, CROEM, José María Albarracín.

The centre, which will be located in the Camposol urbanization, where work has already begun, will cover the population of Mazarrón and also potentially that of neighbouring areas with easy connections with municipalities such as Alhama, Totana, Fuente Álamo, Librilla, Lorca, Águilas, Cartagena and the northern area of Almería.

In a press release, Sr Cánovas detailed that the new hospital, of about 2,500 square meters, has evolved from another health project that began in the coastal municipality a decade ago, so the medical group knows both the area and its population.

Hospital Mederi Guadalentín has the support of a medical team with extensive experience, after more than eleven years providing health services to its patients in the "Camposol Health Clinic", located next to the construction zone of the new complex.

It will be equipped with 38 beds, three operating theatres and six surgeries, as well as a 24-hour emergency service, and will offer more than 40 specialties and health services, from general medicine, surgery, nursing, cardiology, pneumology, gynaecology, dermatology, paediatrics and geriatrics, among others, equipment will include radiodiagnostics, Ultrasound, X-ray and Magnetic Resonance.

It will thus complement the health services in the area, especially in summer, when the population of the coastal environment multiplies due to the arrival of tourists and vacationers.

Regional President, Fernando López Miras underlined the importance of the public-private collaboration of health services, a tandem that during the coronavirus crisis made it possible to provide assistance in a system that was completely overwhelmed by the unforeseen severity of the pandemic.

The obligation of governments, he stressed, is to guarantee a quality and universal public health system, but also to support private initiative and business investment, as has happened in this case.

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