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The residence paid for by Amancio Ortega is ready but still without an opening dateAntonio Hernandez

A booth and remains of wiring appear on the side of the new nursing home that the Amancio Ortega Foundation has built in Santiago. It is the only remainder of some works that have practically been completed. On the outside, the landscaping has been completed and inside there are even curtains placed in the bedrooms and the furniture in the common areas can be sensed. The center that will provide the city with 120 new public spaces is completed. But for now, The Xunta does not have a scheduled date for its inauguration.

Both Galicia and Santiago fail to comply with the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the number of places necessary to care for the elderly population. In 2017, the Xunta announced the creation of seven public residences with 900 new beds in Galician cities. Two years later, he signed an agreement with the Amancio Ortega Foundation, which offered to disburse the 90 million euros necessary to build the centers and deliver them turnkey to the regional administration to manage them. But the bureaucratic procedures for obtaining land, licenses and the outbreak of covid have been delaying the construction of these infrastructures. That of the Galician capitalconfirmed both from the Social Policy Conseller and from the Amancio Ortega Foundation will be the first to deliver.

“We cannot specify when the new public residence for the elderly in Santiago de Compostela, which is financed, built and equipped by the Amancio Ortega Foundation, will be inaugurated. Yes, we can point out that It is one of the most advanced of the seven that will be put into operation”, they emphasize from Social Policy. From the Foundation they indicate that the construction has been completed in the absence of finishing any details and now It remains to obtain the permits for the end of work in order to complete the delivery to the administration. They are also not able to specify exactly when the delivery can be completed, which will materialize “in the coming months,” they emphasize.

The residence works They started in November 2021. The one in Santiago was, along with the one in Lugo, the first center in which the machines reached the field. The completion date stated on the Council’s poster extends until November of this year. Although the processing in the Galician capital was the fastest of the seven Galician cities, it was not without problems. Initially planned for a plot in the Fontiñas neighborhood, the size was not enough, so we had to opt for another location. Finally, the City Council of Santiago offered land on Monte Seixo Street, in the Hipercor area, but two plots of land had to be unified and a house had to be demolished, which meant that the licenses had to be extended several times. In total, the center sits on a plot of approximately 6,000 square meters.

Despite the obstacles, Santiago was one of those that advanced the fastest. Currently the works are also progressing at a good pace in Lugo. The Amancio Ortega Foundation has also begun the construction of the residences in Pontevedra and A Coruña. But neither in Vigo, nor in Ourense, nor in Ferrol have the works yet started. In this last city, the local Government Board approved this Monday the granting of the license to the Foundation of the promoter of Inditex. The entity’s forecast, reported by the mayor of Ferrol, José Manuel Rey Varela, is that the works will begin in September and have an execution period of 18 months. The residence will finally be built in the O Bertón area, but it had initially been planned for O Boial and the discrepancies between the political groups present in the Council delayed the arrival of the license for years.

The comprehensive care center for the elderly in Santiago “will have a top equipment which will be financed by the Amancio Ortega Foundation. It will also have innovative services, such as units specialized in the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, which will make it one of the best residences in Europe,” underlines Social Policy. In addition to the 120 public places for seniorsthe center is expected to allow the creation of more than a hundred jobs in the field of care.

Almost a thousand places

With a total of 964 places in nursing homes in the Galician capital today – whether publicly owned, private or confined – Compostela remains in a ratio of 4.3 compared to the 5 per hundred inhabitants over 65 years of age recommended by the WHO.

In 2021, Santiago had a total of 22,303 inhabitants in that area, according to the latest data from the Galician Institute of Statistics. The percentage will improve significantly when the building donated by the Amancio Ortega Foundation is inaugurated. At that moment will be at 4.8%bordering on the minimum recommended by the international organization, thanks to the creation of 120 new available places.

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