Portal de Cartagena

www.portaldecartagena.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

José Manuel Allegue says that "all equipment that the hospital is using at the moment are well reviewed and comply with the regulations"

The managing director of the Health Service of Murcia (SMS), José Manuel Allegue, accompanied by the director general of Health Care, Thomas Fernandez, and the director of the Hospital Santa María del Rosell, Manuel Ángel Moreno, today highlighted the growth in health care activity and the improvements made in recent years in the reference hospital Health Area II, which covers the region of Cartagena.

Allegue described his appearance as "an act of absolute support from the SMS to the work being done in Santa Maria del Rosell Hospital since 2005 when the management team was stopped after a crisis center for various services, and after publication these days of some news related to assistance provided by the hospital. "

The head of the SMS detailed the increases in activity that has led the hospital in the last four years (2005-2008), taking into account that the population of the area of Cartagena has happened in this period from 333,679 to 366,615 people, which has been a cumulative increase of 8.8 percent.

In this sense, Allegue explained that over the past four years "there has been an increase in overall activity in all areas of the hospital much higher."

The manager Murciano Health Service reviewed the outcome of the activities and stressed that physicians have treated the Rosell in 2008 more than 330,000 downloads, which represents a 13 percent growth for the year 2005, when 295,000 attended, the last year performed more than 10,000 surgeries, 26 percent more than in 2005, the health center hosted 23,000 hospital admissions, up 8 percent from 2005, found 98,000 diagnostic tests, more than 50 percent in 2005 , also attended 135,000 emergency department, 10 percent that year, also increased the number of births, 3,300 attending last year, up 16 percent over 2005.

Allegue highlighted these data "because they demonstrate that Rosell Hospital and Health Service of Murcia have increased health care efficiently during these four years."

The manager also came out to meet the demands of the opposition and some associations have called for an audit to ascertain the state of care at the hospital.

So Allegue stated that "the Health Service of Murcia, through management contracts which are reviewed annually, maintains a constant control of the welfare activities of the Hospital del Rosell, as well as all of the public.

Each year the center performed a memory that is studied thoroughly by the Directorate General of Health Care, and thus assesses the status of each of the services of the hospital. "

In addition, continued Allegan, "the quality of health care is guaranteed to the maximum and, so much so that in 2007 the Centre was nominated as best hospital in Spain at the General Hospital category in the prestigious Top 20 hospitals ".

Regarding the cases recently reported by patients on medical errors or potential errors in the diagnostic apparatus, the manager explained that "as with all complaints, both internally and through the courts, the hospital has offered its complete cooperation in the investigation" and he added, "from the SMS can only say that we will work on everything in our power to know how they developed such care."

Allegue said that "patient safety is guaranteed by Rosell," and that "any diagnostic equipment, all hospital services, is subject to revisions as the maintenance service performs regularly in addition to the reviews themselves that made the marks awarded to the devices.

The apparatus that the hospital is using at the moment is well tested and complies with current regulations. "

The owner of SMS also reported that "Health has made important efforts, investing in these four years than 9 million euros for the renovation of technology and furniture."

The managing director stressed in conclusion that "from the Directorate of Health Murciano, we support the Hospital Santa María del Rosell, endorse his numbers, in addition to the excellent results obtained in all user satisfaction surveys regularly do every three months. "

Source: CARM