The 5,800-square-meter facility, located in the Las Palmas community of the Belén district, is designed to serve about 50,000 people living in the Carrillo area,  including legal foreign residents with a valid DIMEX ID, health officials said.

The clinic offers a broad range of services, including general medicine, emergency care, dentistry, nutrition, laboratory testing, pharmacy, ophthalmology, cardiology, electrocardiography, and palliative care.

The new building also houses patient care areas, waiting rooms, restrooms, laboratories, a pharmacy, reception, offices, parking, and general service and storage facilities.

The project, which cost an estimated $18 million, was financed through a trust between the Bank of Costa Rica and the Social Security system.

The Carrillo clinic is part of a national strategy to strengthen public health infrastructure. Earlier this year, health authorities inaugurated the Monsignor Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez Public Hospital in Puntarenas province.

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