The antes and the despues in the health of La Rioja Baja marketed at the opening of the Calahorra Hospital Foundation. This is accompanied by a recent request from the Rioja municipalities, in particular of Calahorra, and with the special attention paid to the patients of La Rioja Baja.
On December 18, 2000, the new hospital, which will be the first center of expertise, will be operational. For La Rioja Baja, a great sanitary advance. An announcement was made that on June 7, 2001, the inauguration of the center took place. José María Aznar, President of the Spanish Government; Celia Villalobos Villalobos, Minister of Health; Pedro Sanz as president of La Rioja; José Ignacio Ceniceros, Aránzazu Vallejo, Javier Pagola … A nutritious ramillete of national and regional authorities applauded the opening of the hospital. The center started operating with 125 workers and 29 doctors. The number that has increased in these years has reached 430 professionals.
The performance of the specialties is in a way of escalation. The consultations, emergencies, districts, laboratories and hospitalizations of the medical area will be opened first. In the following weeks, he described the surgical, hemodialysis and rehabilitation services. However, with the mediocrity of the media, there have been no failures in these cases since the first surgical interventions were carried out and the parishes were closed. Specifically, the maternity area is one of the most valued. Hacía dies ten years ago that the antiqua police station ‘Nuestra Senñora del Carmen’ had closed its parishes, which required the parturients to move to Logrono or Navarre to accommodate their babies.
The most valued area for maternity leave is that the part of the police force will move to Logrono or Navarre
First baby, in 2001
The first birth took place on February 5, 2001. One child, Emilio José Echevarría Abadía, weighed 3 kilos and 400 grams. His fathers, Emilio and Yolanda, relate the happy news in the pages of this periodical, approved by the treaty dispensed by the staff of the center.
Junto a Emilio José, en ese mismo año nacieron otros 310 bebés. In the last decade the hospital has seen close to 10,500 children and children of Calahorra, Arnedo, Alfaro, Cervera, Autol, Rincón de Soto, Aldeanueva de Ebro, Pradejón … All a large list of municipalities, so live more of 74,000 reaiojanos, who since then have died with medical attention specialized at home.
The 20th anniversary of the hospital also coincides with a ‘shelf’: its integration within the Riojano de Salud system. Another re-indication is maintained for years and with which one can equip the situation with the rest of the sanitary centers of the Community.