Currently, this service is only operational from 8 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon from Monday to Friday.
From that hour, on weekends and holidays, acute patients and people who suffer a heart attack, have to be transferred in a mobile ICU to the Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca de Murcia to receive accurate medical attention.
For the president of Somos Cartagena Somos Región, Ana Belén Nicolás, "it is crazy that, if you suffer a heart attack in Cartagena, you have more chances to survive depending on the time or day." We do not understand as a service that would have a cost of 800,000 euros, is such a big problem for the Regional Government. "
Nicolás recalled that during the campaign for municipal elections, which was candidate for the Mayor of Cartagena by the Popular Party and today Vice Mayor, Noelia Arroyo said that the Autonomous Community would open the Hemodynamics unit of the hospital Santa Lucia 24 hours and He recalled that it is a "requirement" of his electoral program.
In addition, he assured that he had held a meeting with the president of the Community, Fernando López Miras.
"However, the days and weeks go by and this service continues to maintain the same schedule."
"It is an irresponsibility of the regional government not to respond to this demand." From Somos Cartagena - We are a region we demand a quick solution for Cartagena or is it that there are resources for everything but the hemodynamics of Cartagena? A few days ago, we knew the construction of a new high resolution hospital for the Juan de Borbón area in the city of Murcia, with an estimated investment of 50 million.We value positively any investment in Health and we are pleased that the Region can have a new medical center, but we can not understand that 800,000 euros is a problem so serious as to put at risk the lives of people in Cartagena. "
Source: Somos Región