Malaga's Future Hospital to Be the Biggest Building in Andalucía
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P36-37 this week for a futuristic The president of the Andalusian new hospital with 810 government, Juanma Moreno, ex- plained that the 15-storey build- rooms and a cost of 375 ing, which would be “the largest million euros in all Andalucía”, will have 810 pa- tient rooms, 42 operating theatres There’s no specific date for its and 198 outpatient consulting opening, although the regional rooms and cost 375 million euros. government has said that work “Malaga needs this hospital as it could start next year on Malaga’s is the province that has grown huge new hospital whose initial most,” said Moreno. P2 Night curfew ends Man arrested for for Marbella and killing partner and Estepona as case burning her body P3 P4 rate falls overall on a bonfire Alberto Ginés got an unexpected gold in sports climbing on Thursday. EFE Contest reveals who grills the best sardines on the Costa del Sol P31 2 August 6th to 12th 2021 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Designs revealed for Malaga’s futuristic new hospital costing 375 million euros This third major hospital in the city will have 810 patient rooms, 42 theatres and 200 consulting rooms IVÁN GELIBTER MALAGA. There is no specific date for its opening, but the vision of what the future third hospital in Malaga will look like is already a reality. Juanma Moreno, the president of the Junta de Andalucía re- gional government, unveiled the provisional design for the new facility on Monday this week. He defined it as of “transcendental importance”. “We are going to have a first- rate hospital for a first-rate Malaga,” said Moreno, who also announced that the new hospi- tal will be the “largest building in all of Andalucía”. Work on the hospital should start next year, said the regional government, and it should hope- Junta de Andalucía president, Juanma Moreno, reveals details of the plans on Monday this week. FRANCIS SILVA fully be ready by 2027. A FIRST LOOK AT THE NEW HOSPITAL DESIGN It is expected to have more than through two pedestrian walkways. 800 patient beds, 42 operating Juanma Moreno, who was ac- rooms and almost 200 outpatient companied during the presenta- A futuristic and 810 rooms for patients, 42 op- be built as towers interlinked consulting rooms, in addition to tion by the city’s mayor, Fran- high-tech design erating theatres, 198 consulta- with aerial walkways and be about two thousand parking cisco de la Torre, as well as sev- tion rooms, 66 Casualty bays, sited between the existing spaces. It will be, said Moreno, “a eral councillors, described see- 2,000 parking spaces and, ac- Hospital Civil and Materno In- national benchmark for special- ing the plans as “exciting”. The initial plan for Malaga cording to Juanma Moreno, fantil children’s hospital, ties,” and include certain services “The leading-edge design de- city’s new 15-floor mega-hos- “every type of facility and north of the city centre. The not seen in Malaga province to fines a new model of medicine pital predicts an investment of piece of equipment to make it land has been signed over to date. that is more humane and better 375 million euros. It will have a leader in handling complex the Junta by the Diputación Located on a site next to the ex- quality,” explained the region’s a leading-edge design with cases”. The new hospital will provincial authority. isting Hospital Civil and opposite president, who said Malaga’s third the Materno children’s and ma- major hospital will be paid for ternity hospital, the building will with about 375 million euros of have a built area of 270,000 square public funds. View. The metres, of which 197,000 corre- Moreno said that the presen- building will spond to the hospital itself, while tation was being made in August have 15 the rest is divided between the car - “and not in September when it floors above park and other infrastructure. would have more media cover- and below ground and age” - to meet the deadlines. be the biggest “Exciting” design “It is not a newspaper head- in Andalucía. One of the most striking details line, but a commitment,” insisted of the design by Carlos Lamela the Andalusian president. and Alfonso Casares (from the The new hospital’s more spe- Lamela and Aidhos architecture cialised units will serve all of studios) is the double connection Malaga province and the Costa between the hospital buildings as well as Malaga city. August 6th to 12th 2021 NEWS 3 SUR IN ENGLISH Junta to ask courts Brief curfew ends in to approve having vaccine certificate Marbella and or test result to Estepona as cases enter nightspots fall slightly overall ALMUDENA NOGUÉS MALAGA. The Junta de Anda- lucía regional government is to seek the backing of the The regional government official population in July and courts for its new Covid restric- vaccination experts now August, and that the real positive tion policy of asking people to case rate is a lot lower. show an EU vaccine certificate believe herd immunity If a large town exceeds the 1,000 or negative lateral flow or PCR will be reached at 85- threshold, the Junta de Andalucía test to enter nightspots. 90% and not 70% regional government can call for Following a similar policy a night curfew, which must be rati- in the Canaries and Cantabria SUR fied by the courts, to control the being rejected by top courts in spread of the virus. those regions, the Junta’s offi- MALAGA. The cumulative incidence In this Wednesday’s weekly Marbella police call ‘time’ on drinkers before curfew. JOSELE cial spokesperson and regional rate of Covid-19 in the Costa del meeting of the regional commit- minister, Elías Bendodo said Sol towns of Estepona and Mar- tee of experts, only one municipal- cluding the Costa del Sol, was 770, tion programme said this week in his weekly press conference bella has dropped below the 1,000 ity in Malaga province, the inland still the highest in the region but that it was unlikely herd immu- on Tuesday that Andalucia figure and their night mobility re- town of Campillos, was earmarked down on 841 a week earlier. Na- nity would be reached with 70 wanted to get it right and get strictions from 2am and 7am have for the curfew. tionally, Spain’s 14-day rolling rate per cent vaccinated, as had been approval first. been removed from today, Friday. was 633 at the middle of this week, hoped, due to the more conta- He reminded journalists Only a week ago, the positive Latest case rates down from 699 a week earlier. gious Delta variant, and that 85 that the regions of Cantabria case rates per 100,000 in the last 14 On Thursday this week (5 August), In terms of people in hospital or 90 per cent was a more likely and Galicia as well as the Ca- days were sufficient to warrant the Andalucía had 4,496 new positive with coronavirus locally, the trend figure. naries had already sought to regional government seeking to Covid-19 cases reported, up on was still upwards this week, with Just over 56 per cent of the An- introduce the policy and oth- impose the nighttime curfew in 3,655 the previous day and slightly 503 in Malaga province hospitals dalusian population had had their ers were considering it. the two resorts. However, the re- down on a week earlier. on Thursday, up on 465 a week full vaccinations this week. “It is a safety guarantee that striction has been short-lived. Lo- The 14-day rolling case rate per earlier, with 99 in intensive care. As of this week the age groups will eventually be brought in,” cal politicians have argued that the 100,000 fell for the second day on able to make appointments in An- he said. high rate was exaggerated, as re- Thursday for the region to 585. Vaccination levels dalucía for their first jab have Only Galicia currently has a sort towns can double or triple their Malaga province’s case rate, in- The head of the Junta’s vaccina- been extended to 15-year-olds. similar rule operating. 4 NEWS August 6th to 12th 2021 SUR IN ENGLISH Oxana and Juan Man arrested for killing girlfriend and Luis had been living together for trying to dispose of her body on a bonfire just a few weeks The 53-year-old from E. C. / Á. F. / J. C. Rincón de la Victoria was MALAGA. Neighbours in the seen putting the corpse building where Oxana and Juan in his car before he drove Luis lived expressed their sur- 40 kilometres to Maro prise on Tuesday when they learned that he had been ar- EUGENIO CABEZAS / ÁLVARO rested for her death. They didn’t FRÍAS / JUAN CANO know the couple well as they had only been renting their MALAGA. Rincón de la Victoria de- apartment for three months. clared three days of mourning The couple hadn’t been to- this week after a woman, 36, died gether long.