The Xunta will allocate half a million to promote health research through the development of prototypes of innovative solutions
The Consello da Xunta approved this Monday to declare the new Novoa Santos Health Center in Ourense as an urgent public project of exceptional interest. With this agreement, the Galician Executive will speed up the construction of what will be the first Comprehensive Health Center in the province of Ourense.
Thus, and after supervising and approving its execution project, which will determine the final necessary budget, the Xunta will put out to tender the works, which have an estimated amount of more than 14 million euros.
The Xunta has detailed that the action will include the demolition work of the current building and the construction of the new health infrastructure, which will serve a population of 130,000 people.
The future cutting-edge healthcare equipment will be distributed over 13 floors (basement, ground floor and 11 floors) and will have a constructed area of 7,584 square meters.
In this way, the Galician Executive will reinforce the health care of the city of Ourense by incorporating new services, integrating the Continuing Care Point (PAC) in the same space, and expanding medical and nursing care outside of common hours.
The greater availability of space will allow the incorporation of new services such as comprehensive rehabilitation programs (pelvic floor, musculoskeletal diseases and cardiac rehabilitation), as well as expanding the provision of structural, diagnostic and human resources. In addition, it will allow the incorporation of new diagnostic units, with ultrasound and radiodiagnosis equipment and rooms; mental health and rehabilitation.
The facilities of the new CIS Novoa Santos in Ourense will have a clinical care area, with 33 medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and hygienist consultations; four multipurpose rooms and four teaching rooms; in addition to the corresponding technical rooms, sample taking and patient waiting rooms, a pediatric area, with four consultation rooms, medical and nursing, with a multipurpose room and a breastfeeding room.
Along with this, the women’s care area is added with two consultations and will include the Family Guidance Center (COF) with two obstetrics consultations, a nursing consultation and a psychology consultation.
It will also have new units such as the Comprehensive rehabilitation area, with a physiotherapy consultation, a gym with six treatment cabins and a rehabilitation room; the mental health area, with 17 consultations: psychiatry, nursing, social work, psychology and teaching; the radiodiagnosis area, with a new room, specifically for ultrasound diagnosis, newly created, and an ultrasound room, in addition to a specific telemedicine area.
HEALTH RESEARCH
On the other hand, the Xunta will allocate half a million euros to promote health research through the development of prototypes of innovative solutions.
The call for grants is intended for public health research institutes in Galicia and aims to promote the transfer of results of their work, identifying those projects that have commercial potential and can be transformed into economic and social value.
This Monday, the Consello da Xunta authorized the modification of the percentage of the advance payment on account in the regulatory bases for aid for the pre-commercial development of research results in Galicia.
This action is part of the cross-border cooperation project Transfiresaúde, with which Galicia and Portugal are committed to R&D&i to address the common challenges of active and healthy aging and personalized medicine
The Xunta will also announce the first edition of the Health Research Awards to promote research in primary care and support emerging researchers.
Research in Galician healthcare is carried out mainly in the three public healthcare research foundations, in the Galician Public Foundation for Genomic Medicine and in the Galician Institute of Ophthalmology Public Foundation.
AGREEMENT WITH THE FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS OF DEAF PEOPLE
On the other hand, the Galician Government has authorized in its weekly meeting the signing of a collaboration agreement between the Department of Social Policy and Equality and the Federation of Associations of Xordas People of Galicia (FAXPG) to implement programs to improve accessibility in the communicative sphere of deaf, deafblind and hearing-impaired people.
The budget of this agreement amounts to just over 154,000 euros, coming from European funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (NextGenerationEU).
Finally, also this Monday, the Council gave the green light to the signing of another collaboration agreement between the Department of Social Policy and Equality and the Aliad-Ultreia Association to improve the shelter that this entity has in Lugo and in the that serves women who are victims of trafficking and/or sexual exploitation or at risk of suffering from it.
The budget of this agreement amounts to just over 42,000 euros, also coming from European funds from the recovery plan.