The Government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, today highlighted “the effort” being made by the Padre Menni hospital center to make its facilities “more habitable, human and close” for the care of people with mental illnesses.
Quiñones pointed this out this Wednesday in the opening ceremony of the last renovated healthcare block in the Padre Menni hospital center of Santander, where he has also taken part in the laying of the first stone of the new healthcare unit and visited the urbanization works of the northern area of the hospital.
The delegate of the Government has praised the “enormous work” done by all the staff of Padre Menni to provide “comprehensive help to people with mental illness or brain damage”, offering resources of complete, partial and ambulatory hospitalization that “has made you referents in the sector in Santander and Cantabria”.
Quiñones has considered that all the works of improvement and expansion that Father Menni is carrying out in the hospital center, which will involve a global investment of 33 million euros of those that have already been executed more than 13, will create “a better space to live, more habitable, more human and closer to the needs of the patient”.
And, he added, that “is always good news, because it makes us have avant-garde spaces in Cantabria to care for those who need us most” and, for this reason, he has thanked the Padre Menni hospital center, its director, Carlos Pajares, the hospital sisters and all the staff for the “enormous effort” that is being made to develop these works without stopping the care activity.
“I would like to thank the Padre Menni hospital center for all the work, for the enormous effort you are making and for carrying out these works with care, respect and attention to patients, trying to annoy them as little as possible, which is exemplary,” he added.
The delegate took advantage of her speech at the event to thank the hospital center “for the enormous work you have done in the pandemic and after it to protect patients, very vulnerable people, helping them to face the virus with the greatest guarantees for their health.”
The event was also attended by the President of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla; the President of Parliament, Joaquín Gómez; the Mayor of Santander, Gema Igualo; the Councillors of Health and Social Services, Eduardo Pesquera and Eugenia Gómez de Diego, among other authorities.