Aguirre announced that the new hospital de Móstoles will open its doors on 21 March.

· The Center will be operational gradually so that in three weeks all services are operating

-Móstoles will be the first city in the region, after Madrid, count on two public hospitals

-this hospital will have 260 individual rooms, 47 queries, ten operating rooms and 78 jobs emergency

– this week any Madrid can see the facilities of the Hospital, before its entry into operation

Madrid, February 2012.- the President of the community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, accompanied by the Health Minister, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, announced that hospital King Juan Carlos, the new hospital de Móstoles beforehand, will be inaugurated on 21 March and will begin to receive patients a day later. Aguirre made this announcement after opening hours of Open doors at this hospital, which took place last week, so any Madrid can know its facilities, before operational and reporting of their benefits.

At the ceremony, Aguirre emphasized that this already is 10 new hospitals has initiated the community of Madrid under its mandate, are giving a huge service to the people of Madrid ”. will be enough to bring them that in 2011 they have attended 2.300.000 consultations, 800,000 emergency and the third part of the Parthians in our region ”, explained.

The Chairperson recalled that it does little more than year and a half laid the first stone of this new Hospital King Juan Carlos, and today is almost finished, thanks to an investment of EUR 232 million to give them a closest and advanced health ” 180,000 citizens, mostoleños and the southwest of the region, which is directly intended.

In his speech, Aguirre congratulated architect Rafael de la Hoz on the design of this Hospital, that brand here in Móstoles, a landmark for Spanish health architecture ”.

Gradual opening in three weeks

Hospital King Juan Carlos de Móstoles will begin to receive patients from March 22 and its commissioning will be gradual, so that within a period of three weeks all the services of the Center are operating.

In the first week open consultations, in the next week will begin activity ambulatory surgery, intensive care unit and Hospital day as well as physical therapy. Finally, in the third week will begin the activity of hospitalization, emergencies, obstetric block and dialysis. In parallel, ten days before the opening, the hospital will begin to cite their first patients.

The new hospital is located between the plaza de toros and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, with easy access by motorway A-5. It has an area of 95,000 square meters.

260 beds, 10 operating rooms

The new hospital de Móstoles will be 260 individual rooms, 47 queries, 10 posts of medical day hospital and 12 posts of dialysis. In the surgical area you will have 10 operating theatres and a Da Vinci robot for high-precision operations. By the same token, will have 32 cabinets of exploration, 78 jobs urgent care, 21 rooms of Radiology, 10 jobs neonatology and 18 posts of UCI.

Its portfolio of services also includes medical, surgical, maternal child and Services Central that respond to 90% of the most common pathologies. This Center is one of the three new hospitals in Madrid launches this legislature, joining the in Torrejón de Ardoz, already in operation from September 2011, and to Collado Villalba, which currently is under construction.

Hospital King Juan Carlos will give health coverage to about 180,000 inhabitants of 18 municipalities (Móstoles, Navalcarnero, scaffold of glass, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Villa del Prado, Navas del Rey, Villaviciosa de Odón, Cenicientos, Rozas of Port Royal, dam Pelayos, village of Fresno, Sevilla la Nueva, Villamanta, Villamantilla, Villanueva de Perales)(, Chapinería, Colmenar de Arroyo and the Alamo), although with the implementation in the Madrid health of free choice, any citizen may if you wish, be cared for in this Center.

In this regard, Aguirre recalled that Madrid is the only autonomous community of Spain in which all citizens can freely choose the doctor and the hospital where we want to be treated, regardless of the place of the region in which we live.

Open days

Among the activities to be carried out this week’s open day highlights the child drawing contest to choose the mascot of the service of Pediatrics, involving students from elementary schools in the area.

Also, these days have the support and participation of prominent citizens of the municipalities of the area which are a reference point for all the people of Madrid. Chef Paco Roncero for example, provide a healthy cooking workshop and the former player of Real Madrid, Rubén the network, will lead another sport and health.

Similarly, several of the new public hospital doctors carried out various health workshops and visitors will see your level of tension and sugar.

After opening the Conference, the President and the Minister toured service diagnostic imaging, the area of hospitalization and the urgencies of the new King Juan Carlos Hospital, second of the town which makes Móstoles in the first city of the region, after Madrid, count on two hospitals.