It will be located starting next Tuesday, August 24, in the central courtyard of the Melkart building in our tax precinct and will be accessed by pedestrian.
The Consortium reinforces its social commitment to the people of Cádiz with this collaboration with the Andalusian Health Service. which will benefit citizens in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Starting next Tuesday, August 24, the fiscal precinct of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone will host a COVID-19 vaccination point after the Cádiz Consortium has provided a free space for this to the Andalusian Health Service. The vaccination site is located in the central courtyard of the Melkart building and will be accessed exclusively by pedestrian through the main door of the building.
Specifically, the enabled facilities have a surface area of approximately 1,120 m2, along with a module measuring 46 m2, also on the ground floor. The Consortium has also provided furniture necessary to carry out immunization services, such as 58 chairs, tables and power outlets for the correct functioning of this authorized external vaccination point.
The Melkart building is one of the best-known in the tax area for its emblematic central patio with garden areas of approximately 1,930 m2. It is located very close to the entrance control on Ronda de Vigilancia Avenue and its main façade faces Plaza del Melkart, next to Council of Europe Avenue.
The vaccination point will have two simultaneous inoculation lines, by appointment, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. every day of the week. The area enabled for vaccination will be delimited and with entrance and exit doors duly marked and controlled. As it is like a new point with exclusively pedestrian access, it will not be possible to access the tax area with vehicles except for those people who have reduced mobility and document it.
Zona Franca and the Andalusian Health Service, through the Bahía de Cádiz-La Janda Primary Care District, have coordinated the entire device to provide an ideal service to citizens who come for vaccination, while avoiding causing any harm to clients or users of the building.
The Junta de Andalucía wants to publicly thank the Consortium for its full collaboration and availability to set up this device, which allows the addition of a new mass vaccination point in the city of Cádiz.
With this agreement with the SAS, the Free Trade Zone maintains its line of institutional collaboration and its willingness to increase its social commitment to the citizens of Cádiz, in an exercise of responsibility and support to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In this sense, at the end of last year the Consortium already reached out to the Andalusian health authority by offering its storage capacity in cold spaces for vaccines in case it had been necessary.
Likewise, the SAS maintains, on a rental basis, several warehouses in the Free Trade Zone. It is a 4,261 m2 logistics warehouse in the interior area and which is used as a provincial logistics platform for the collection and distribution of medical supplies, a warehouse located in the 2,079 m2 outdoor industrial area where the laundry is located, and another - the most recent - which functions as a storage and distribution center for medical supplies against COVID-19 of just over 1,000 m2 in the fiscal area, in the area that belonged to Altadis.
The new vaccination point will replace the one that has been maintained to date in the Cádiz Congress Palace, facilities that were provided by the local City Council and to whom the Junta de Andalucía also wants to express its gratitude.