Amancio Ortega will invest 90 million to build nursing homes in all Galician cities

Amancio Ortega, founder of the Inditex empire and the richest man in Spain, will make a new altruistic donation aimed at improving the provision of public services, in this case, for Galician citizens. It will build seven new Public Centers for Comprehensive Care for the Elderly, one in each of the main cities of Galicia.

The first vice president of the Amancio Ortega Foundation and the businessman's wife, Flora Pérez Marcote, ratified this Friday the agreement that will make this project a reality. There will be an investment of 90 million euros , even higher than the more than 70 million euros that the entity donated in 2018 to different projects in Spain.

The Foundation will directly assume the construction of seven buildings in A Coruña, Ferrol, Lugo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo and will equip them with their complete equipment . Then, they will be integrated into the autonomous public network of care for the elderly, so that the Xunta de Galicia will assume its management.

These seven new centers will offer 900 residential places , 120 in each city except in the two largest in the community, Vigo and A Coruña, in which the places will amount to 150. Its implementation will also allow the creation of more of 800 direct jobs.

Flora Pérez Marcote signed the collaboration agreement with the Minister of Social Policy of Galicia, Fabiola García, in an act in Santiago de Compostela in which the Galician president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, stressed that the patronage of the Amancio Ortega Foundation allows downloading to the public coffers of an important investment and announced that the amount that will be saved thanks to that altruistic donation will be redirected to be used for other social purposes.

Feijóo extolled the social commitment of the Amancio Ortega Foundation, which already financed the construction of six public nursery schools, two intergenerational centers and the new headquarters of the Royal Father Rubinos Social-Charitable Institution in A Coruña , and made important donations to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in public hospitals, among other actions.

These centers will be located in buildings designed by the Galician study Elsa Urquijo Arquitectos and will have innovative services such as psychogeriatric units specialized in the treatment of Alzheimer's and other similar pathologies.

The Galician president stressed that the residences will be the best in Europe and that, with these centers, the care for the elderly in Galicia "takes another step in the search for excellence" and shows that "is prepared to address the challenges of the 2020s. "

The executive vice president of the Amancio Ortega Foundation, José Arnau, thanked on behalf of the institution the trust placed by the Xunta, and stressed the importance of collaborating with the greatest effort possible to improve the quality of life of the elderly.

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