The São Lourenço Health Center has officially been relocated to a new building diagonally opposite the main entrance of the São Lourenço Municipal Market and renamed the Praia do Manduco Health Center.
Originally located opposite the back door of the São Lourenço Church, the new venue is eight times the size of the existing health center. The new venue measures over 6,600 square meters, making it the fourth-largest health center in the city.
It will provide services in prenatal and female healthcare, general adult healthcare, dentistry, and Chinese medicine, etc.
An official opening ceremony was held yesterday at the new venue, officiated by Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong and Lei Chin Ion, Director of the Health Bureau.
Lei said that the new venue carries the hope of bringing better health care services to the population living in the south of the Peninsula. Lei also stated that his team runs a total of eight health centers and three health stations.
“Our target is that every 50,000 to 100,000 residents will have one health center,” the health official explained. “We hope that residents can reach their respective health center within 20 minutes.”
The new South District health facility has cost the city MOP400 million to build. Meanwhile, the health center serving Seac Pai Van is now being refurbished. The government expects it to be opened in 2022. To cope with growing community medical needs, the government will add extra consultation rooms to the existing Seac Pai Van Provisional Health Station.
After the ceremony, Ho was given a tour of the relocated health center in the company of Ao Ieong. AL
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