Overview
- The Xunta opened the Sisalde health centre and the facility began operating on Monday, June 15 with activity limited to urgent cases and three consultation rooms serving morning shifts.
- Sergas and 061 expanded the advanced nursing SVA ambulance from 12-hour to 24-hour service with six nurses on rotating 24-hour shifts and six technicians on 12-hour shifts.
- Residents, health platforms and political figures held large protests and a silent evening rally and continue to demand formal restoration of the Punto de Atención Continuada (PAC), rejecting the ambulance roll‑out as an equivalent replacement.
- On-site staff and reporters flagged operational problems: the ambulance will be parked to the left of the main entrance and crews must climb stairs and cross the lobby to reach it, a layout that health officials say may be reorganized to speed responses.
- The new €9.6 million centre is built to serve about 16,000 users with a planned 45 professionals and added services such as dentistry, physiotherapy and ultrasound, but ordinary consultations will start only once the full staff is in place and locals warn night and weekend closures could reduce access to urgent care and on‑call pharmacy services.