The new specialty center in Mijas will have an underground parking lot with 400 spaces.

The new specialty center in Mijas, which will consolidate the existing center into a new building, will also house the new Las Lagunas health center, the Primary Care Emergency Service, the Mental Health unit, and the base for the 061 emergency service. It will feature an underground parking lot with a capacity for 400 spaces. This is outlined in the technical specification document published by the Mijas Town Hall on the State Contracting Platform as part of the tender for the drafting of the construction project for the specialty center. The parking area will cover 12,000 square meters and will occupy the entire surface of the plot on one level, in addition to another surface parking area on the rest of the plot where the building is to be constructed, with capacity for another 150 vehicles. This was announced by the Councilor for Infrastructure, Juan José Torres (PP), who added that the tender for the drafting of the project was announced for 625,000 euros and the deadline for submitting proposals is February 9th. The new facilities will be built on a plot bordered by Comares Avenue and Algatocín, Benajarafe, and Antonio García Moreno streets. Following the guidelines of the functional program developed by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), the center will have separate pedestrian accesses for scheduled activities, emergencies, extractions, and a distinct area for use in health crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Torres noted that the specialty center, which aims to meet 85% of the municipality's healthcare demand, will offer cardiology, pulmonology, pediatrics, gynecology, ophthalmology, dermatology, speech therapy, major outpatient surgery, minor outpatient surgery, among others, as well as midwives and 24-hour emergency services every day. The project for the new center must apply sustainable development criteria, limiting its energy needs for heating, cooling, domestic hot water, auxiliary energy, and electricity in general. Similarly, it must consider efficient resource management and minimal energy consumption. The winning bidder of the tender will have a period of 150 natural days to draft the construction project: 30 natural days for the preliminary project; 60 days for the basic project, and another 60 days for the execution project and the Safety and Health study. Once the project is drafted, the Mijas Town Hall will put out a tender for the construction works, in accordance with the agreement signed with the Ministry of Health, which will subsequently be responsible for staffing and equipping it.