The President of the Republic assured that decentralization should not only occur in the interior of the country, but also in the capital.
He President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pouparticipated in the inauguration of the new Dr. Enrique Claveaux health center (former Hospital Filtro) and called for “decentralizing” public services in Montevideoensuring that “decentralization” should not only occur within the country, but also in the capital itself.
This Monday, within the framework of the inauguration of the new health center, the president spoke and celebrated the investment of 312 million pesos as “the culmination of a process.”
“When talking about decentralization, one tends to believe that you have to talk about the Negro River to the north, or at least outside the metropolitan area, there is decentralization in Montevideo“the president emphasized.
“Building the Hospital del Cerro was not a whim”
Likewise, he explained that “when it was decided to build the Hill Hospital “was not a whim” but responded to the fact that the large percentage of users of the Administration of State Health Services (ASSE) It was in the west of the department.
“This health center is also an issue of decentralization, because there are users who have been here for many years, who saw it deteriorating and who thought that the time had come to wall up this health center, luckily the ASSE government is between the people,” he said.
At the same time, Lacalle Pou He insisted on the personal satisfaction that the new health center generates, which will serve 3,000 users daily and has 6,000 square meters, 327 days before the end of the current government administration.
Along the same lines, the head of ASSE, Leonardo Ciprianirecalled that “the center was about to close” due to the “fire risk” it presented due to the existence of “old boilers”, so “a 100% remodeling of the building” was carried out.
Source: Ambito
