tacoronte health centre expansion 68 million

£5.7m investment to finish Tacoronte health centre works

€6.8 million investment for Tacoronte health centre

The Canary Islands Health Department is set to invest €6.8 million to complete the expansion and renovation of the Tacoronte Health Centre. The approval of this spending, granted this Monday by the regional government, allows the Canary Islands Health Service to begin the contracting process for the project. The work will restart a scheme that stalled during the previous legislature and will involve refurbishing a building that is more than thirty years old.

Three-phase renovation plan

The execution of all works will be carried out in three phases, beginning with the completion of the building currently under construction. The expansion will provide the centre with new spaces, increasing its size from the current 2,739 square metres to over 3,000 square metres. The project will affect all three levels of the building and will create new areas for entrances, a lobby and patient reception zone, a waiting area, observation and paediatric consultation rooms, a breastfeeding area, a Family and Community Medicine consultation and waiting area, a dental surgery, as well as an emergency department with its own waiting room, CPR room, control station and access points. Additional spaces will also be created for storage, terrace access, generator rooms, electrical cupboards and toilets.

History of delays

The expansion of the centre originally began in 2019, with an execution period of more than two years and an initial budget of approximately €2.9 million. The works were first affected by the COVID-19 health crisis and later by execution difficulties, which led to the termination of the original contract and the drafting of a new project to complete the work. This new project also includes the refurbishment of the health centre’s current facilities.

Services and patient numbers

The Tacoronte Health Centre building provides primary care services to the Tacoronte-El Sauzal Basic Health Zone, which serves 32,242 patients with Individual Health Cards (TSI). Of these, 19,683 are registered at the Tacoronte Health Centre itself, with the remainder attending the clinics in El Sauzal, Ravelo, Agua García and San Juan Perales. Current services offered at the facility include family medicine, nursing, paediatrics, physiotherapy, outpatient retinography, clinical ultrasound, spirometry, social work, midwifery, liaison nursing and a dental health unit.

Council welcomes the announcement

Tacoronte Town Council has welcomed “this important step announced by the regional government, which gives the green light to the continuation of works that are a priority for the town,” they said in a statement. “We trust that the budget and the stipulated deadlines can now be met in a timely and proper manner, thereby achieving a facility that is dignified, modern and worthy of the residents of our area,” they concluded.

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