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- Citizen spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, recalled that the international recommendation fixed in four months the limit waiting for a patient to be called to a unit of pain, "in Cartagena we are almost quintuple the recommended limit, and this requires that The Murcian Health Service and the Ministry of Health to mobilize to establish a new plan to stop this drift of care "

The pressure of care and waiting lists are squeezing Cartagena sanitation.

From the Municipal Group of Citizens in Cartagena, it is considered particularly serious that the units specialized in the treatment of pain that exist in the Hospital Santa Lucía have a waiting list of up to more than a year and a half, (580 days).

The Citizens spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has informed that he has already sent a letter to the manager of the area of ​​health II, José Sedes, to send him the latest data published by the Murcia Health Service and request at the same time a diagnosis of The system by which they prioritize cases over others, and the plans they have put in place or planned to reduce these delays.

"These pain units are essential for hundreds of patients in Cartagena, because they are one of the last resources they have to improve their quality of life."

"This vital importance, according to Manuel Padín, is not matched with the resources available, and warns that it is not only a problem of the hospital centers of Cartagena but a national problem, since the majority of consultations of the units of pain Are saturated throughout Spain. "

"To this day, pain is something that we do not have to endure, there are procedures and treatments to deal with this disabling pain, so that patients do not suffer, but for that to be possible it is necessary to rearrange and design a new Protocol of assistance since it is clear that the current one is not working ", explained the Citizens spokesman, who has informed that in addition his Group has transferred to the deputies of Citizens in the Assembly this data so that they analyze the best form to attack legislatively This problem, not only waiting in the pain units, but also in rehabilitation and vascular surgery.

We know from the opinion of some of the professionals that we have consulted, which mainly lack specialized personnel and with exclusive dedication, "it does not seem reasonable that these units have increasingly fewer resources and means when they are increasingly referred more patients due, among others Things, to the progressive aging of the population. "

On the other hand, Manuel Padín, recalled that the international recommendation fixed in four months the waiting limit for a patient to be called to a unit of pain, "in Cartagena we are almost quintuple the recommended limit, and this requires that the Murcia Service Health and the Ministry of Health to mobilize to establish a new plan to stop this drift "

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena