The Hospital Comarcal de Inca now has a new rehabilitation building. It is a new space of 668 square metres, 350 more than the previous space available to the Hospital.

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The new rehabilitation building has fourteen electrotherapy boxes, two rehabilitation doctor’s surgeries, an occupational therapy surgery, a paediatric rehabilitation surgery and a pelvic floor surgery. It also has a kinesiotherapy and mechanotherapy room that is much larger than the previous one.

Seventeen physiotherapists, three auxiliary nursing care technicians, an occupational therapist and an administrative assistant work in the new rehabilitation building, attending to one patient every half hour from Monday to Friday from 8.00 am to 9.00 pm.

The Rehabilitation Service is the first of the three services that form part of the reform and expansion project of the Hospital Comarcal de Inca, which has a budget of over eight million euros.

The next to be inaugurated will be the new Emergency Department, which will have thirty-nine places, seven seats and six positions in the Short Stay Unit (SSU). At present, the Emergency Department of the Hospital Comarcal de Inca has thirty-two places. At present, paediatric emergencies are shared with adult emergencies, without differentiated circuits. With the planned expansion, the Emergency Department will be divided.

The last area to be inaugurated will be the new ICU of the Hospital, which will have a capacity of seven beds plus a floating bed. Before the pandemic, the Hospital Comarcal de Inca only had four ICU beds. After the works, the new Critical Care Unit will have more beds, more space and above all more safety for professionals and patients.

The Hospital Comarcal de Inca was initially designed, according to the 1999 functional plan, to attend a population of 84,000 inhabitants. It currently serves a population of almost 132,000. The size of the hospital at the time has been significantly exceeded today.

300 million euros of investment in hospital infrastructures and health centres

These works form part of the Health Infrastructures Plan of the Regional Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, which currently has projects and investments worth 300 million euros underway throughout the Balearic Islands, generating 3,000 direct and indirect jobs. Around 200 million are earmarked for creating, extending or reforming hospital infrastructures, and the rest are destined for building or remodelling health centres and basic units, as well as new 061 bases, mainly.

As for hospital infrastructures, in Mallorca 183 million is earmarked for the new Son Dureta; the conversion of the Psychiatric Hospital into the Bons Aires Health Park (Palma); the enlargement of the Manacor Hospital; the construction of the new emergency room, ICU and Rehabilitation Service at the Inca Regional Hospital, and the refurbishment of the General Hospital (Palma).

In Menorca, the refurbishment of the Verge del Toro Hospital stands out, with an investment of 15 million euros, while in Ibiza, 3 million euros are being spent on Can Misses. The new haemodialysis service at the Hospital de Formentera also represents an investment of 400,000 euros.

As for primary care in Mallorca, 80.8 million euros are earmarked for various projects, including the Artà Health Centre, the new basic health units in Montuïri, Sant Joan, Santa Margalida and Consell, as well as the construction and maintenance of the primary care centres in Bons Aires and Son Ferriol and the health centre in Pollença. The UBS in Portocolom and Sant Llorenç are also being refurbished, and specific refurbishments are being carried out in centres such as Pere Garau and Emili Darder (Palma).

In Menorca, the Canal Salat refurbishment project is underway in Ciutadella, with 7.7 million euros.

Other important actions are the new 061 base in Formentera, with 2.6 million euros, and the work on the new base for all land medical transport in Mallorca, with nearly 2 million euros.

Likewise, the first out-of-hospital birth centre in Spain is being planned, next to Son Espases, with an estimated investment of 1.2 million euros