The Department of Works and Infrastructures has started this week the expansion and adaptation works to COVID-19 of the Medical Office of the hamlet of El Paretón-Cantareros, which are running the business "Constu Archena, SL".The Totana City Council awarded in mid-July the contract for expansion and adaptation to the COVID-19 protocol of the Medical Office of this district for the amount of 32,912 euros, which will be carried out over the next few weeks.The Local Government Board urgently started the procedure to award the contract for these actions.
A total of six construction companies have attended the tender procedure, with the tender budget being 41,149.72 euros.The contracting of the referred works was processed through a simplified summary procedure, with the price as the only award criterion.The El Paretón Medical Office is a building built in 1993, which has been in use until the start of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, which had to be closed to the public and users were referred to the two centers of Totana.This fact has caused numerous annoyances to the residents of the deputations to which it provides medical service, with a large census of older people, which have greatly hindered their access to medical services by having to travel 12 kilometers to Totana.Following the instructions received by this department of the Autonomous Community on the minimum works to adapt this center and be able to offer medical services and carry out preventive measures before COVID-19, it has written a report in order to describe these works necessary for its adaptation and reopening of the center.
