After a 20-year wait Los Pacos has a health centre – Costa News Spain

Junma Moreno, President of the Junta de Andalucía, opened the long-awaited health centre in Los Pacos, Fuengirola, something residents have been waiting twenty years for. 

19,000 residents will benefit from the new set of doctors’ surgeries, which has cost €6 million and comes at a moment when the expansion of Los Boliches health centre is about to conclude. The new health centre includes physiotherapy and rehab, radiology, as well as dentistry.

‘We are talking about another historic demand from Fuengirola in which we are investing about €2 million, which will allow us, among other improvements, to add twelve new primary care consultations, reaching a total of thirty-six,’ Moreno said.

Los Pacos Health Centre was a demand of the Fuengirola Council, dating back to the year 2002. At that time the Municipal Plenary Session had requested the Board improve healthcare services in the city and offered a number of plots for the construction.

In 2007, the land was allotted to its construction. A licence for building was then granted in 2011. It wasn’t until the latest administration in the Junta de Andalucía took power in 2019 that funding was sought to actually carry out the task of building the health centre.

The Andalusian president made it clear that between 2019 and 2024, the Andalusian government invested more than €330 million in health infrastructure improvements and in new centres in the province of Malaga, 627 per cent more than what was invested between 2011 and 2018.