PALMA
THE Spanish Minister for Health, Trinidad Jimenez was full of praise yesterday for the new general hospital in Palma, Son Espases.
It's a magnificent example of the excellence of the National Health System, Jimenez claimed. The government's commitment to public health is self-evident in the state-of-the-art technology with which the hospital is fitted, the Minister added.
Jimenez was visiting Palma yesterday, not just to see the new health centre but also to chair a meeting of the Inter-regional Health Board which was attended by all regional health ministers except those from the North African cities of Ceuta and Melilla and Valencia.
The regional ministers accompanied Jimenez on her visit to Son Espases where she congratulated the Balearic government on its achievement.
Jimenez chose the occasion to announce the imposition of a maximum waiting period of 180 days anywhere in Spain for specific operations.
The hospital of Son Espases is to replace Son Dureta - now more than 50 years old - as Palma's top general health centre. Although the company responsible for the building of Son Espases has already handed over the keys to the Balearic government, patients will not be moved there from Son Dureta until the beginning of next month.
The move comes amid criticism in some quarters over an apparent lack of Palma City Council's ideas about what to do with Son Dureta after it becomes an abandoned building.
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