The Councilor for Health of Barcelona City Council, Marta Villanueva, announced this Tuesday that the council will expand the community health program Barcelona Salut als Barris from 2025 for reach 11 new neighborhoods in 2030.
Villanueva appeared at a press conference alongside the Sports Councilor, David Escude, and jhha explained that the investment necessary to “enable all neighborhoods to have primary and community care services adapted to the needs of the neighborhood” will amount to 4.5 million.
37 neighborhoods out of 73
Thus, with the incorporation of the 11 neighborhoods (Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta, Hostafrancs, la Clota, Camp de l’Arpa, el Clot, Montbau, Porta, Sant Antoni, Can Baró, Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou and Provençals del Poblenou) to the 26 that are already in the program, has estimated that it will reach a total population of 680,000 Barcelonans.
Asked about the new pediatric model promoted by the Generalitat, Villanueva stated that it must be guaranteed “that families can access these pediatric teams in an agile, fast and close manner, with a radius close to home.”
Sports recipe
Escudé explained that the city council has begun to prepare the Sports recipe project to promote physical activity through prescription in health centers due to the benefit it has in the prevention and recovery of some diseases.
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The intention is that the staff of these centers can, as some have argued, prescribe “physical activity and sport within the entire amalgam of offerings that the city of Barcelona puts at the service of its citizens.”
It has not been specified when the project is expected to begin. because he has assured that it depends on more administrations and agents, nor if the Sports Recipe will mean a discount in municipal centers, although he added that the idea “is that the price is not an impediment to those who need it.”