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The City of Cartagena has once again demanded that the Ministry of Health comply with the commitment reached more than a year ago to open the Hemodynamics Unit of the Santa Lucía Hospital 24 hours a day.

The councilor of the area, Obdulia Gómez, recalled that more than a year ago the regional government committed to the Platform in Defense of Public Health 'Salvemos el Rosell' and the Consistory itself to open throughout the day and the ends week this unit.

"The reality is that the Hemodynamics service of the Cartagena hospital continues to open only in the morning and Monday through Friday.

Patients who arrive at the hospital in the afternoon or during the weekend should be transferred to the Arrixaca.

These supposes that, in many cases, they do not arrive in time to be taken care of ", it has indicated.

Proof of this is that since last December, 3 people have died without receiving the necessary attention on time, as assured by members of the specialized medical staff of Santa Lucia.

The current situation is that 80% of the people who are treated for a heart attack in the Santa Lucia hospital between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm are undergoing primary angioplasty, while those who attend the hospital in the afternoon or at night, only three out of ten can receive this treatment.

Since June 2016, many heads of hospital services, such as Emergency, Intensive Medicine or Cardiology, have proposed the extension of the schedule, but the counseling continues without boosting the service.

"The regional government intends to save by risking the lives of many people, not only in Cartagena but in the entire Health Area II, which also includes the municipalities of Fuente Álamo, La Unión and Mazarrón, and we can not allow it to continue doing so" , said Gómez.

Although the municipal Plenary unanimously approved in October 2016 the request to the Health Department to open the 24-hour Hemodynamics unit, at the Santa Lucía University Hospital, the situation has not changed.

It is striking that being the current advisor specialist in Cardiology and knowledgeable about this problem, since he himself was head of this service in Cartagena between 2009 and 2013, he has not yet responded to this need.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena