Jose Williams on the construction of a medical center in Congress: “It’s not a clinic, it’s a topic”

Sunday fourth force reported last night that the current Board of Directors of the Congress approved on January 9 the construction of a new medical center for Parliament to provide care to patients legislators already on average 3000 workers Legislative Palace.

A day after the report was released, Congressional President Jose Williams clarified that it was not polyclinicbut from new topic which will replace the current space located at basement Parliament on an area less than 70 square meters.

“This is a topic, this is not a clinic. This facility has been planned for ten years to be built elsewhere. I want to clarify that the topic that is currently working has three offices, works in the basement and has three rooms, ”Williams said at a press conference, which was also attended by the head of the ethics commission. Karol Paredesand chairman of the subcommittee on constitutional charges, Lady Camones.

Williams He commented that when he was in the basement, subject exposed to the damaging effects of possible earthquakes or earthquakes, for this reason it was decided that new infrastructure is in Jose Faustino Sánchez Carrión Squarearea at the back Congress.

in a natural disaster [el tópico] he could fall and not serve the workers. This is not a topic for congressmen, this is a topic for workers and about 400 citizens who enter Congress every day, ”he defended.

“As you know, getting out of Congress, out of the city center, is difficult. Therefore, it is necessary to have center to deal with them, and we do not allow workers and congressmen to visit them when they can do it here,” he added.

Protects the installation of a new theme

Joseph Williams He denied the information that the new theme has a length of 170 meters, as stated in the report. He explained that, according to the technical points of the project, the new facility will have an area of ​​110 to 115 meters.

“In the topic that is being done, there are three rooms plus a small room for a psychologist, which is also required by law. we bring it [al psicológico] from another building and placing it in that location. law 29783 [de seguridad] more than 100 meters required. The one we had below is 70 meters and it was covered by those who made the article. [reportaje]”, he commented.

In this sense head of the board of directors defended setting the new theme, noting that a congressional employee had recently suffered a “heart attack”. That’s why he said that the lack of adequate space for health is “rather a disadvantage”.

“Two years ago the adviser [congresista] Virgilio Acuña and a worker had a heart attack a few months ago. The absence of such a center is rather a disadvantage. Congress understands that the security system in Peru is bad and that there are posts that are mistreated,” he said.

Finally, Congress President He argued that, according to the terms of reference, the construction of the topic would cost at least S / 650 thousand, and not S / 2 million, as originally stated.