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The mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, this morning has demanded the Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas, that the CARM meet "once and for all" Law 3/2016 of March 21 for the full operation of the Santa Maria del Rosell Hospital.
"It is a nonsense that two years later the law remains unfulfilled when the mandate of the Regional Assembly was clear: The Rosell must be open at full capacity, with 328 beds, ICU and Emergency Service," stressed the first mayor.
"However, so far they have only promised to implement the Functional Plan, which envisaged the opening of 55 beds, which would mean that the hospital would be only 16% of its possibilities and even these figures are not true, since during the summer months, the 30 surgical hospital beds, the 3 semicrytic beds and the 22 hospitalization beds for medical services have been closed and will continue until September 17, "Castejón said.
"This situation is causing that the users of the Area II go to the hospital of Santa Lucia, avoiding the Rosell, which is causing the collapse of the urgencies of this center", has specified Castejón.
The counselor has committed to the mayor to open in 3 or 4 months a unit of Chronic Complex with 50 beds and to turn the Rosell into a high resolution center.
"I hope the counselor will keep his word, since his predecessors have not done so.
If so, it is good news for Cartagena, "said the mayor.
The mayor reminded the counselor that the Cartagena wait an average of 17 days more than the rest of Murcia to undergo a surgical operation and 44 days, to be seen by a specialist ..
"To give clear examples, in the Region the wait for an operation of angiology and vascular surgery is 100.06 days while in Cartagena it is 256.92;
in traumatology it is 87.02 days on average in the Region, while in Cartagena it is 110.14 days;
in urology, Murcia expects 61.26 days, while users of Area II have to wait for 93.78 days;
in gynecology it is even more bloody, since the regional average waiting is 78.09 days, while in Cartagena it rises to 107.12 days.
This situation is unsustainable, "said the mayor of Cartagena.
In the case of the external consultations by specialties the wait of the Cartagena is also superior to that of the rest of Murcia;
of 108 days versus 64.
The mayor has also referred to the diagnostic tests, taking as an example the ultrasound scans, in which the average waiting period at the regional level is 31 days, while the area II is 57 days;
or colonoscopies, in which the regional average is 44 days, compared to 93 in Area II.
"The data is cold and unquestionable and make it clear that the situation of Area II Health is clearly improved by complying with a mandatory law, something that seems to have been forgotten by the regional government," said Castejón.
Finally, the mayor recalled that Cartagena is the main industrial and tourist focus of the region and despite that has a hospital that in practice is almost closed and lacks a burn unit.
"To this we must add that the Hemodynamics Unit does not work as it should in the afternoon and that the workers are subject to a precarious work that is not typical of the century in which we live.
Counseling should remedy this situation immediately, "he said ..
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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