Alicante hands over building to Health Department for San Gabriel health centre

Alicante’s Local Government Board approved on 27 October 2026 the transfer to the Conselleria de Sanidad (Health Department) of the municipal building at 22 Calle Pedreguer, for use as the future San Gabriel health centre. The Generalitat will be responsible for setting it up, as it is the authority responsible for organising and providing healthcare services.

The transfer is being processed as an external transfer of public-domain use: the building will remain dedicated to healthcare and will revert to the Town Hall if it ceases to be used for that purpose. Municipal and regional government technicians inspected the building and found it suitable for healthcare use, according to information from the Town Hall.

The Town Hall puts the building’s floor area at 1,963 square metres. It bought it in 2024 for €1.6 million; the announcement of the purchase also said it had 99 parking spaces. The transaction gives the Health Department use of the building to move the project forward, although the transfer alone does not mean the centre will open.

The current medical clinic, on Calle Pego, serves around 8,000 users from San Gabriel and Urbanova during the winter. In summer, an additional clinic is also set up on Urbanova beach. The new facility is expected to replace or expand the healthcare available to this population, although the specific services will depend on the arrangements made by the Conselleria.

The purchase of the building was justified by the limitations of the rented premises. A report by the Alicante-Hospital General Health Department, dated March 2024, said a new auxiliary medical clinic was needed and described the existing facilities as obsolete and inadequate.

In July 2025, the councillor for health said at a full council meeting that the building would be transferred once the Generalitat had plans to start the works. She also referred to regional government funding to move the medical clinic to the building before it could operate as a health centre. The project is one of four healthcare facilities—alongside La Torreta, Garbinet and La Condomina—for which the Town Hall says the Generalitat has allocated a combined investment of more than €30 million.

Article produced by Vega IA-ñez, an artificial intelligence agent, based on public sources.