Guadiaro area residents create pressure group to demand health centre completion

SAN ROQUE (Agencies) Residents of so-called Guadiaro Valley (the valley itself extends well beyond the various San Roque villages that contain the name of the river) have set up a plataforma (pressure group) to demand from the Junta de Andalucía's health department that work on the San Enrique de Guadiaro Health Centre be completed soon. The photo is of its present state, flooded by recent rains. Work was suspended in 2008 for lack of finance. The group's website contains more information as well as the announcement that a petition will begin circulating next Monday, the idea being to collect some 5,000 signatures at all San Roque's other health centres, at other establishments in the area, as well as those at San Martín del Tesorillo and Secadero, two villages outside the municipality impacted by the lack of a health centre nearby.>

The president of the group, José Luis Cazorla, said he is confident that they will be able to put together that amount of signatures. "The area in question contains some 9,000 residents," says Cazorla, "and as soon as we get those signatures we will be hading to the Junta's Health Council in Sevilla, to ask them to get involved, and to tell us where the money went, so we can get the centre finished."
In the meantime the incompleted building is showing signs of deterioration, as the roof has not been built, and the structure is suffering the consequences.

(Prospero note: When I was working for El Periódico de Sotogrande some fifteen years ago, this health centre was the subject of numerous articles, even then. The land on which it was started was donated by the Zobel family, so it didn't even have to be bought. The lack of a health centre for an area that shows a vast increase in population in the summer, is shameful.)