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The Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios, today presented the City of Cartagena in the reorganization of health care in Cartagena after the inauguration of the new hospital, which will double the number of hospital beds.
Thus, Palacios explained that the new area of Cartagena, Area II, will emerge from the current split in two new ones: the Cartagena (Cartagena, Mazarron, Fuente Alamo and La Union) which will have 276,000 inhabitants, whose 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 (San Javier, San Pedro del Pinatar, Los Alcazares and Torre Pacheco), which will have 100,000 people so far belonged to the Cartagena area, and referral hospital which will be the new Hospital del Mar Menor, which is also open in the second half of 2010.
Palacios, who has held today at the Palace Hall of Cartagena a briefing with the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, and the mayors of other towns to form the new area, such as La Union, Mazarron and Fuente Alamo, said that this reorganization, with the maintenance of Rosell as a second hospital in Cartagena, and the reduction of the average stock to meet any of the two new areas, citizens will have greater accessibility, more effective and efficient system, and have greater human resources and materials.
Thus, the Cartagena area will count with 585 beds to 961, from a ratio of 1.82 beds per thousand to 3.47.
Also, keep in time, the Naval Hospital, recently assigned to our community for a period of five years extendable by the transfer agreement, Palacios said, adding that it will remain as a backup can sue health planning.
MORE NEW MODERN HOSPITAL
The new Hospital of Cartagena, whose work will be received in late February and will be operational in the second half of 2010, will be the referral hospital for all Area II, as the new center will have an unprecedented investment in technology and reference specific regional conditions.
Among the new features the minister stressed 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, so that after its launch up any user of the Region will have to be referred to other regions for treatment in radiotherapy.
The new hospital will have installed a modern PET-CT, the second in the region, which will allow 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.
Regarding the most important technological equipment to be procured for assistance in the new hospital, the minister mentioned the establishment of integrated operating rooms that will allow communication of image and data, 'gamma camera' for nuclear medicine studies, a new vascular arch Hemodynamics for the unit, two new MRI equipment and two new teams of computed tomography (CT) technology.
THE ROSELL, SECOND EMERGENCY DOOR
María Ángeles Palacios has said that, as citizens have been demanding for years, the Rosell will remain the emergency door at peak performance, which will join the emergency door of the New Hospital, to provide the area with Emergency two-door high-resolution significantly alleviate the heavy workload at peak times of the year.
In addition, the door will Rosell semicritical unit, each operating room will continue at full capacity and create a great center of medical and surgical specialties at high resolution.
Another aspect that will strengthen the ambulatory care in Rosell, and therefore the unity of the pain will stay in the hospital, and maintain the infrastructure of Radiology and Laboratory, in addition to keeping your average health care stay.
In the same vein, the social area is boosted with the provision of health care beds for older people, by making specific health service the resources they need.
In addition, 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 30 new positions will hemodialysis.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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