The Mayor of Cartagena delivered the new, completely modernized Bayunca Health Center. After nearly eight years of being unfinished, the alcalde William Dau Chamatmanaged the restart of the works in March of this year, and four months later it is delivered equipped and with all the attention services open to the public.
“These are the real events that I like to be at for two clear reasons, first, because I can see my people face to face, the people of Cartagena who build and fight for their well-being; second, because we continue to demonstrate with accomplished and notorious facts that we are indeed transforming Cartagena, that we are able to work in a transparent manner and bring down those huge walls of corruption that they had different sectors behind, as is the case of Bayuncawhich since 2015 had been waiting for this white elephant, abandoned and desolate, to be finished, following six suspensions in various periods, finally today it is at the service of the community”, said the alcalde William Dau Chamat.
Dau Chamat stressed that this work is an articulated work between the Secretariat of Infrastructurethe District Health Administrative Department -DADIS-, the contractors and the auditing.
“The process that today allowed us to give the Bayunqueros their clinic operatingwith the commissioning of a building of more than 1,400 square meters that will benefit the community with services such as medicine general, emergency, odontologyvaccination, for the more than 13,800 inhabitants of the areathis being our second health center delivered and rescued in the course of this administration”, he added.
A on shiftthe Secretary of Infrastructure, Luis Villadiego said that “we are happy because we are delivering the Bayunca Health Center to the community, This is a project that we have worked on for a few months to get it off the ground, and today it is serving users, thanks to the investment made in the order of $12,827 million. This is the result of some legal and technical work tables, and without a doubt, without the team of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, DADIS, the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, this would not have been possible, today we are going to move forward with those who are coming, who are the El Pozón hospital, Barú and Canapote, which are part of these works that are underway, and we are already making the necessary arrangements to continue with the next stage”.
The administration of ‘Save Cartagena Together’ ratified that resources for more than $24 billion were managed to carry out the works that allow the operation of the Nelson Mandela Health Center, Puerto Rey and Arroyo de las Canoas in a next stage.
“At the end of July, the authorization and necessary disbursement was confirmed to restart the infrastructure work and provision of these hospital centers following having managed the resources before the Treasury. Currently, we are advancing in the process to achieve the incorporation of the approved resourcesfor which a draft agreement is being structured, through the Secretary of the District Treasury, that will be presented to the District Council of Cartagena as soon as possible, and of which we hope to conclude with a modern Health Center that will benefit 60,000 people, thus fulfilling another of my campaign promises”, explained the Mayor of Cartagena.
Leaders and community in general of Bayunca were at the inauguration of the new Health Center, which began to provide its services a few days ago. The inhabitants were satisfied and look forward to the materialization of this work.
“Many times we had already lost hope and enthusiasm, but today, thanks to Dau’s management, we received these facilities in magnificent conditions. I make a call to the community so that we have a sense of belonging, that we are vigilant and that we contribute to the good end, “said Marco Antonio Pertuz.
“The expectation we have of the Bayunca Health Center is to improve the quality of health for this population that has needed them for so many years.we see this work in a satisfactory way, and I want to thank Mayor William Dau for having put on the shirt 100%, and finally materializing this work. We can no longer call it a white elephantnow we have to follow up on the population taking care of this infrastructure that we had wanted so much,” said Jorge Ledesma.
Services at the Bayunca Health Center
-General medicine
-Odontology
-Vaccination
-Medicine PYP
-PYP Nursing
-Emergency and observation
-Procedure Rooms
-Tub of our gynecological
The service is in charge of the ESE Hospital Cartagena de Indias and today provides care to the neighboring community of Pontezuelawhich is estimated at more than 13 thousand inhabitants.