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The expansion of the social health centers of Mérida and Plasencia will cost 32 million


Main entrance to the social health center of Plasencia, dependent on Sepad. / / TODAY

They will be new constructions, in which long and medium stay units will be installed

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The social health centers of Mérida and Plasencia with two new buildings, in which long and medium stay units will be installed, in which 32 million euros will be invested.

This was explained this Monday by the second vice president and Minister of Health and Social Services, José María Vergeles, to the Regional Mental Health Council, in which he presented these actions, and pointed out that this double project is attached to the European 2021 operational plan -2027.

Of the planned investment of 32 million euros, 12 will be earmarked for each of these centers for the construction of long-distance units and 8 million for two medium-distance ones.

As explained, the construction project for the long-distance units has been drafted by two architecture studios and whose works will be tendered by advance processing this year.

At the same time, the projects for the Medium-Stay Units will be prepared, whose surface will be 1,700 square meters and will have residential, social, health care, administrative areas, general services and outdoor areas.

Specifically, the Mérida social and health center project will have 82 rooms, therapy rooms, three Serious Mental Disorder (SMI) units, psychogeriatrics and nursing, among the care units, and others of a general nature such as the kitchen, changing rooms and common areas, in a building that will have two floors, and the second will be exclusive for the 3 TMG units.

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This building will be located on the current plot of the Emeritense Sociosanitary, but not next to the pavilions, but behind the Regional Blood Bank “and we will act in the entrance area to demolish the Psychiatric Hospital,” said the vice president.

Currently, as he recalled, the Mérida Social and Health Center has 311 workers and 179 users, of whom 75 have severe-chronic mental disorders and are long-stay patients, while 13 people are in the middle stay and 64 are in the Psychogeriatric unit. The remaining 20 are in hospital rehabilitation.

Plasencia

For its part, the Social Health Center of Plasencia will have 68 rooms and six special ones, for treatment, a hospital unit, another residential unit, nursing, therapy rooms and general services, as well as a kitchen, changing rooms and other essential services, explained the counselor of Health.

It will also have two floors, in such a way that the Residential Unit and general services will be located on the first floor and the hospital and community units will be located on the second floor, in addition to other general services. There will be three types of rooms, depending on the needs of the users and their diagnosis or therapy.

Currently, the Placentine center has 372 workers and 229 users, of which 89 have severe-chronic mental disorder for long stay and 18 SMI for medium stay. On the other hand, Psychogeriatrics has 50 users, and in the rehabilitation unit there are 58 patients, 7 in the alcoholism unit and 7 in the hospitalization units for people with disabilities.

During his presentation to the Mental Health Council, the head of Health and Social Services recalled that since 2015 investment has continued in both centers to “alleviate an inefficient infrastructure due to its age and design”, with an investment of 1.17 million euros in Plasencia and 1.28 million in Mérida.

However, the “true transformation, both structural and functional,” Vergeles said, will come from Europe, for which the council has worked hard and to “forget a black stage in mental health,” he pointed out.

Merida

In addition, the vice president has described what this entire project for mental health will entail, which is none other than “betting on human rights”, he has influenced.

In this sense, he explained to the Regional Council that the III Mental Health Plan of Extremadura is extended and therefore in force, since the two years of the pandemic have been lost, for which he has urged to continue developing the III Plan, united to the Mental Health plan of the Government of Spain, endowed with 100 million euros.

Vergeles explained that “mental health has never been treated in such an important way as it is now” and in his process he has indicated that the first plan advocated eliminating institutionalization, the second to end the stigma, the third to build the Network of Mental Health and the fourth will bet on human rights.


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