The regional health minister, Blas Trujillo, was in Adeje yesterday (Monday) to give his support and visit the site where the new public health/medical centre in Costa Adeje will be built with the mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, and local health councillor, Amada Trujillo.
The new infrastructure, which is already well into the planning stage, will be built on a 6,000m2 plot of land which has been donated by the council for the centre, will have 10 family doctors and nurses, 3 paediatric teams, qualified physiotherapists, mental health specialists, a women’s health unit, a dental practice, and an emergency health zone.
It is planned that funding for the centre will be approved in the 2023 regional government budget, and that the infrastructure will meet the needs of the growing population of the municipality given the limitations of the main health centre in Adeje town.
The mayor expressed his gratitude to the health minister for “his interest in getting to know the reality of our health care situation first-hand. We are dealing with overwhelming demands on the current system which we can resolve with this new centre, the construction of which we have been waiting 15 years for.”
The new centre will form part of the regional department of health’s plan to effectively split the work of the current health centre in the town. Adeje’s health system currently deals with over 47,000 public patients according to the most recent data (October 2022), with 38,010 of the registered at the main centre and just over 9,000 attending the small centre in Armeñime.
The new centre will serve people living near Playa del Duque, La Caldera, Ifonche and Benítez, San Eugenio Bajo, San Eugenio Alto, Costa Adeje, Miraverde, and Playa Fañabé.
