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The municipal MC Group presented at the next municipal plenary, to be held on September 8, a motion requesting that urge the Ministry of Health of the CARM to enhance the hyperbaric chamber Santo and Real Hospital of Charity of Cartagena, unique interior in the region, ready to receive high pressures inside and dedicated to medical use of 100% pure oxygen in a pressurized compartment.

Among its main uses include the treatment of decompression of divers, carbon monoxide poisoning, burns, diabetic foot or anemia, among many other diseases also associated with trauma or psychological dysfunction, hearing or vision syndrome.

Also in this chamber you can develop hyperbaric oxygen therapy, allowing increased oxygen transport in the blood, making revive depressed physiological mechanisms deficit thereof.

The head of Health spokesman MC, Francisco Calderon, recalled that the mayor, Jose Lopez, visited a few months ago the Holy and Royal Charity Hospital, where he could see how the hyperbaric chamber has been the victim of cuts in health driven by the regional administration, which has led to a significant decline from service, reducing drastically the number of treated patients, all despite being in perfect condition and able to get higher performance.

In this sense, Calderon recalled that the hyperbaric chamber has been serving successfully for four decades, so it can be used without problems for treating a host of diseases.

"The absence of public media becomes more important the work of this hospital as charity," he pointed spokesman MC.

For this reason, and reiterating the commitment of MC with Santo and Real Hospital of Charity, Francisco Calderon has stated that "we request that the Ministry again eyes to Cartagena, to this charity and its hyperbaric chamber under the maxim that cuts should not affect the health. "

Finally, Calderon stressed that "Health only grants now the medical wheel prescribed treatment in this center, where before if I did, so evident being the lack of support from the Ministry of Health to Charity Hospital, which causes which is installation is underused despite the benefits it could bring to patients if it were at full capacity. "

Source: MC