Emergency centre works underway
Council is ‘working on having different services for the whole Vega Baja located in the building at La Zenia’
WORK on the long-delayed emergency services centre in Orihuela Costa is expected to be finished at the beginning of 2021.
Mayor Emilio Bascuñana and the councillors for emergencies, Víctor Valverde, and health, José Galiano visited the site in La Zenia on Wednesday.
They noted that construction finally started again in June, a decade after the first stone was laid. The contract to build it was awarded in March to the company Doalco, with a budget of €2,064,000, including IVA (VAT) and was scheduled to take six months.
Sr Valverde said: “Now we are working on the tender to provide the furniture required for this space, which will cost around €70,000, so that it can start its activity as soon as possible.” The mayor added that he hopes the regional government ‘will provide suitable emergency services so that our residents will get the best service’.
He said that they were currently working on having different services for the whole Vega Baja located in the centre at La Zenia so that they can respond effectively up and down the coast.
The construction project was supposed to be completed nearly a decade ago by the Partido Popular (PP) regional government at the time but the constructor went bankrupt in the financial crisis.
It remained in limbo until the current coalition regional government took over, which put up the funding and passed responsibility for managing the contract on to the town hall.