The health adviser of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alejandro Vázquez, reiterated this Tuesday that the expansion of the Hospital General Universitario de Segovia will begin in 2027. He defended that a line item of 4.5 million euros is already included in the regional Budgets for the next fiscal year, a point that led the socialist member of parliament Sergio Iglesias to demand that it detail “exactly what you are going to do there,” considering that amount insufficient to carry out a true expansion.
Iglesias recalled that at the time the Junta said that “they were going to start the works in 2022” and that, subsequently, both the current adviser and the president, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, indicated that this year, 2026, “they were going to start it.” However, he stressed that “there is one month” left for the year to end “and it is clear that they have not tendered them.”
For this reason, he demanded that the head of Health ask the people of Segovia for “apologies,” who “continue to suffer from insufficient infrastructure,” and expressed his reservations about the overall plan. He recalled that the expansion has been set at 58 million euros and that for 2027 only 4.5 million has been allocated. “At this rate neither you nor I are going to see that infrastructure,” the PSOE parliamentarian ironized.
Vázquez explained that at these moments the drafting of the construction project is underway, with a budget of 1,657,000 euros, and that it should be completed this same month. Once it is supervised by the Regional Health Management, the forecast is that the work will be tendered in 2027.
The adviser specified that for that year there is an allocation of 4,580,000 euros in the regional accounts, intended to kick off the work during the next budget year.
The head of Health expressed his “great astonishment” at Iglesias’s criticisms. He stated that “you have to have courage and you have to have guts to ask these days and also from your parliamentary group about the actions of the Junta de Castilla in a public infrastructure,” and added that “hopefully” the parliamentarian would show “only a small part” of the “legitimate demand” he addresses to the Junta de Castilla y León “for his party colleague the minister Puente and his disastrous management of railway infrastructure.”
"They demand explanations here today for the planning of an infrastructure and look, where they govern, well, what happens happens with infrastructures and you come here without any embarrassment whatever," Vázquez concluded, reproaching the PSOE a double standard in terms of public investments.