Mijas will have a specialty center: the City Council approves the agreement with the SAS

The people of Mijas have not won the jackpot in the Health lottery, as it would have been with the construction of the hospital announced by the Socialist Manuel Chaves in 2003, and whose agreement was signed two years later by the then Health Minister, María Jesús Montero. However, they have at least won several smaller prizes, such as the signing of a protocol with the Andalusian Health Service, through which the City Council will build a specialty center. This Monday, the Mijas City Council approved, with votes in favor from the government team (PP, VOX, and PMP), the text of the agreement that will be signed with the Andalusian Health Service so that the people of Mijas can have a specialty center in their locality. Nearly a year ago, on January 28, 2025, the Mijas City Council approved the signing of a protocol with the Andalusian Health Service for the construction and launch of a medical specialty center in Mijas. Three months later, last April, the protocol was signed, and in June, a monitoring committee was created. On November 19, the committee approved the draft text of the agreement and on November 28, the mayor of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), ordered the start of the administrative process to approve the agreement, once all relevant technical and legal reports were obtained. Once the City Council and the SAS sign this agreement, the City Council commits to tender the drafting of the preliminary project and the construction project to build the specialty center, for which it already has an allocation of 625,000 euros budgeted in the 2026 budgets. Once the project is awarded and drafted, the City Council will construct the building, following the guidelines of the Andalusian Health Service, which will provide the equipment and the necessary health professionals for its operation. The facilities will be built on a municipal plot of 12,365 square meters, located between La Vega Institute and Miramar Park, specifically, between Benajarafe, Algatocín, Antonio García Moreno streets, and Comares Avenue. The center will have specialty consultations in cardiology, pulmonology, pediatrics, gynecology, ophthalmology, dermatology, speech therapy, major outpatient surgery, and minor outpatient surgery, among others, as well as midwives and 24-hour emergency services, every day. Additionally, it will integrate and replace various currently dispersed services, including the Las Lagunas health center, the High Resolution Specialty Center, the Primary Care Emergency Service, the Mental Health Unit, and the 061 base, "improving the attention and coordination of health resources," as stated by the VOX spokesperson in the Mijas City Council, Juan Carlos Cuevas, "without giving up on the hospital." The people of Mijas will receive comprehensive healthcare at this center, which will operate with the philosophy of a single act, meaning that patients will receive diagnosis and treatment in one center and on the same day. In this way, the center will have the necessary equipment for the patient to undergo the necessary complementary clinical tests so that the specialist can issue a diagnosis and prescribe treatment on the same day without having to travel to the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella. The mayor of Mijas, Ana Mata, has valued as a decisive step that the City Council has approved the agreement to be signed with the SAS, whose facilities have the approval of the Malaga College of Physicians. The mayor has highlighted the importance of Mijas having "a modern center that will allow a person to see the primary care doctor, the specialist, undergo diagnostic tests, and receive treatment, even surgical, in one place and on the same day, as an excellent alternative to hospitalization."