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Del Rosell Hospital Emergency Department and all maintain the basic services, and enhance patient treatment
The new hospital will have a new radiation therapy service and the second PET-CT in the region, which will prevent the transfer to the Arrixaca for cancer diagnosis and treatment
The Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios, today in the city of Cartagena the reorganization of health care in Cartagena after the inauguration of the new Hospital in Cartagena.
Thus, Palacios explained that the new area of Cartagena, Area II, will emerge from the current split in two new ones: the Cartagena that will have 276,000 residents, which hospital shall be the new hospital being built in Cartagena Santa Lucia, and also will feature the Santa Maria del Rosell Hospital, and the new area of Mar Menor, Area VIII, which will have 100,000 people so far belonged to the Cartagena area, which hospital shall be the new Hospital del Mar Menor, also open in the second half of 2010.
Palacios, which today held a briefing with the mayors of La Union, Mazarron and Fuente Alamo, populations that form the new area, noted that "this reorganization, the maintenance of Rosell as a second hospital in Cartagena, and population reduction medium to serve in either of the two new areas, citizens will have greater accessibility, more effectiveness and efficiency of the system and have greater human and material resources.
"So," said Palacios-Cartagena area will count with 585 beds to 961, from 1.82 beds per thousand people to 3.47.
In addition, the Cartagena area remain, for now, the Naval Hospital, "recently given to our community for a period of five years extendable by the transfer agreement," said Palacios, who added that "will remain as a backup planning care can sue. "
New Hospital in Cartagena
The new Hospital of Cartagena, which will become operational in the second half of 2010, is "obviously" the referral hospital for all Area II.
The Minister stressed that the new center, which will have an unprecedented technological investment, "will reference level for the new Hospital del Mar Menor and the regional reference even be certain diseases."
Among the new features and new services, Parker said "the radiotherapy service, which will install two linear accelerators, which will take treatments aimed at users of Cartagena which until now had to refer the Arrixaca" and added that these equipment, "complemented those installed in the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, so that from its launch any user of the Region will have to be referred to other regions for radiotherapy treatment."
The new hospital will have installed a modern PET-CT, the second in the region, which "will enable early and accurate diagnosis primarily oncological processes and planning and monitoring will enable a more effective treatment."
Furthermore, the future reference hospital will have a specific unit burned, will also have a new unit of Plastic Surgery and enhance the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Service with a new catheterization laboratory, which reaffirm the regional reference service.
Parker said some of the most important technological equipment to be procured for assistance in the new hospital, as "the creation of integrated operating rooms that enable the communication of image and data, 'gamma camera' for nuclear medicine studies, a new arc vascular Catheterization unit, two new MRI equipment and two new teams of computed tomography (CT) technology. "
Hospital Virgen del Rosell
The Minister also explained that "the door will remain Rosell Emergency at peak performance, which will join the emergency door of the New Hospital, to provide the area with two emergency doors high resolution significantly alleviate the strong pressure care at specific times of the year.
In addition, the door will Rosell semicritical unit. "
Palacios summarized that "will continue at full capacity all the currently available operating rooms and create a great center of medical-surgical high resolution."
"We want to strengthen" said the counselor-patient care for the Rosell, and therefore the unity of the pain will stay in the hospital, and maintain the infrastructure of radiology and laboratory, while maintaining their ability to care average stay " .
In the same vein, Palacios added that "the social area is boosted with the provision of beds to health care for seniors, by making specific health service the resources they need."
It also continued the owner of Health "will enhance the area of Mental Health, and adapted spaces, taking account of the Regional Plan of palliative care for such assistance, in addition to enabling the necessary space to house all outpatient dialysis Cartagena and its surroundings, which will have 30 new dialysis stations. "
A new era for health services in Cartagena
The Minister stressed the importance of the coming months will, and above all, the first in which is open the new Hospital of Cartagena.
Palacios said that "it will be a complicated process, but in which we have long been working to achieve in the shortest time possible, a quality of care for the citizens of Cartagena eagerly awaited by all."
Palacios added that "the regional government, with President Valcárcel at the helm, has opted for Better Health in Cartagena, so we face this challenge with enthusiasm, and very soon we will have the result of that very soon we can enjoy thanks the work of many professionals. "
Finally, the minister thanked the health professionals in the current area of Cartagena "the commendable work they have done in recent years and are still developing day by day for Cartagena with the health care they deserve."
Source: CARM
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