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| The Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Health, Manuel Padín, announced this during the meeting he held this Friday with President Fernando López Miras and the Mayors of the Region | The City of Cartagena will donate twelve hospital beds, ICU type, to Health Area II in the coming days, as announced on the morning of this Friday, April 24, the Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Health, Manuel Padín.This measure aims to continue contributing to improve the sanitary facilities in Area II, which includes the Santa Lucía and Santa María del Rosell hospitals.

“We are fully aware that the health situation is improving and that both the ICU and the hospital areas reserved for patients with COVID-19 are increasingly more capable thanks to the discharges in recent days.

However, we know that the pandemic has not ended and that there may be new spikes, so from the City Council we want to contribute to our Health having the best possible means, "said Manuel Padín.The purchase of the beds has not been easy, since they are those used in the Intensive Care Units, and they were sold out on the market.

"It has not been easy, but they will finally arrive in a few days and will be at the disposal of Health Area II to ensure that the ICU will have new beds in case future facilities should be expanded," Padín said.In this same sense, the deputy mayor recalled that the City Council's powers in health matters are very limited.

"We owe ourselves to the guidelines determined by both the Ministry of Health and the Ministry.

The coordination in this sense is total from the first moment and this is how it will continue to be during the state of alarm and the subsequent stage to return to normality, "he explained.Currently, Cartagena has five medical offices open in its councils, specifically in La Aljorra, Canteras, the Polígono de Santa Ana, Los Belones and La Palma, which complement health centers and hospitals.From the City Council, the cleaning tasks have been implemented, focusing all the staff assigned to this service in the five open clinics.In addition, a fogging service is going to be hired for the whole year, not only during this crisis, with which a more exhaustive disinfection can be carried out in the health facilities through the use of a quaternary ammonium solution, which is the same compound that the Murcian Health Service (SMS) is using in its facilities.The deputy mayor has insisted on the need to have the Hospital del Rosell one hundred percent, as the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, did in a previous telematic meeting with the regional president.

"It is essential that Cartagena has two complete hospitals.

This health crisis is testing us and we must rise to the challenge.

We must comply with the Law of Rosell and make the Paseo Hospital an independent center ”, the councilor reiterated in the forum of mayors.Finally, the mayor has conveyed to the regional president and the other municipal leaders their concern about the control over the permission for minors to go out on the street accompanied.

The deputy mayor has made it a priority for the State Security Forces and Bodies to collaborate in this task.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena