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"The waiting time in this Community is 80.28 days compared to 54 in Spain;

if it is feasible to open a unit in Santa Lucía Hospital that would assume 200 interventions per year, the 200,000 euros per year budget should not and can not be an impediment, "says the Liberal spokesman, Manuel Padín

On the occasion of the report carried out in 2017 at the Hospital de la Arrixaca, which discouraged the possibility of extending the operations of Cardiac Surgery to the hospitals of Santa Lucía and Los Arcos because it would mean a reduction in the number of staff in Murcia and due to "budgetary problems", the spokesperson of Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, maintains that "once again, with the PP, the economic interests prevail over the health of the citizens of Cartagena and its Region;

it has occurred for many years with the partial Hemodynamic service, but also with the services of traumatic oncology, cardiac and thoracic surgery and neurosurgery (117 days of waiting in the Region) that do not exist in the Santa Lucía Hospital, despite the fact that La Arrixaca Hospital is collapsed. "

Regarding cardiac surgery, Manuel Padín recalled that the delay in the Region to enter the operating room is much higher than the national average "according to the latest known data, the waiting time in this Community is 80.28 days compared to the 54 from Spain;

if it is feasible to open a unit in the Santa Lucía Hospital that could assume 200 interventions per year and exponentially reduce waiting lists, it seems reasonable to try;

the 200,000 annual budget euros should not and can not be an impediment, nor the criterion that marks such a decision ".

The Liberal Party wants to defend this position in front of the author of the report that advises against doing it, the head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Service of La Arrixaca, Sergio Cánovas, and to achieve this he has asked the President of the Health Council, José Sedes, to include this matter in the agenda of the next call for this advisory body and invite this head of La Arrixaca to explain his report, "answer some questions, and we can confront arguments, the more light is better: there are internal reports that make political decisions very important, with a great importance for the health of citizens, and I do not understand why the PP hides them from public opinion. "

PP and hemodynamics

On the occasion of the new announcement made today by the candidate of the Popular Party to the mayor of Cartagena in which ensures his party at the regional level is now committed to open 24 hours the Hemodynamics service in Cartagena, the Liberal spokesman said that "those who have had all the legislature to fight for Cartagena from the regional government, and only react in electoral key and forced by the media and social pressure portray themselves;

the Cartageneros will punish the indifference of so many years and the indecent electoral opportunism ".

The Minister of Health, Manuel Villegas, refused to expand, and the regional president described as 'nonsense' the findings of the study of cardiologists of Santa Lucia.

In addition, Citizens recalls that in 2018, the general manager of SMS Healthcare, Roque Martínez, went much further: he accused the City of Cartagena of lying and assured textually that there had been "no death as a result of the time organization of hemodynamics in the Region of Murcia ".

The general director of SMS also said that he was "unnecessarily alarming the population with false data and that reality was being deliberately manipulated."

In those statements, made through a note from the CARM in January 2018, the high-ranking official elected by the regional president, Fernando López Miras, acknowledged that "a group of experts was reviewing the protocol to proceed with its updating, in base to the new scientific evidences and the assistance data by health areas of the Region ".

For Manuel Padín "the most disconcerting, is that the result of that research was published by the Spanish Society of Cardiology, advise the extension of the schedule of the Hemodynamics service, confirm the data provided by the City of Cartagena, and nobody, nor the president regional, neither the Minister of Health, nor Noelia Arroyo, nor Mr. Roque Martinez have apologized to Cartagena nor have debug responsibilities.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena