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Moaña’s New Health Centre Opens June 15 but On‑Site Urgent Care Is Restricted

Nights and weekends will keep being served from Cangas, leaving local campaigners to press for fuller emergency coverage.

Overview

  • The Xunta will put the new €9.6 million, roughly 3,500 m² health centre in Sisalde into service on June 15, expanding Moaña’s primary‑care capacity with multiple medical, nursing, paediatric, physiotherapy, dental, telemedicine and imaging rooms.
  • At the inauguration regional health officials said on‑site medical urgent care will operate Monday to Friday from 15:00 to 22:00 and that nights and weekends will continue to be covered at the Punto de Atención Continuada (PAC) in Cangas.
  • As a compensatory measure Moaña will receive a nurse‑staffed ambulance operating 24 hours a day instead of the current 12‑hour vehicle, a change Sergas says helps guarantee round‑the‑clock urgent response.
  • Local leaders and residents rejected the limited urgent‑care schedule as insufficient, recalled the land‑transfer agreement they say envisaged local emergency coverage, and vowed to continue weekly protests and political pressure.
  • Sergas cites staffing and organisational reasons for centralising overnight and weekend shifts and has promised to evaluate the new arrangement after a few months while the town keeps up a long campaign that began when urgent care was moved to Cangas in April 2020.