The health authorities analyzed the current situation of service provision in the department.
Last Friday, the Foscal clinic in Floridablanca reported that the high level of demand for medical services caused the emergency service to overwhelm its care capacity.
According to the institution, the service collapsed and on the date of publication of the statement, it had an occupancy of 270% with 194 patients, including care for adults and pediatrics.
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The letter warned that this situation would be due to the partial closure of other Health Service Providing Institutions, IPS, such as the Los Comuneros University Hospital, where subsidized users of the New Service Provision Environment, NEPS, were no longer served, and Only part of the NEPS population is served by the contributory regime.
Given this contingency, the Secretary of Health of Santander, Edwin Prada, held a meeting at the Emergency and Emergency Regulatory Center to analyze the situation.
The official reported that at the Santander University Hospital there is high occupancy in internal medicine, but there is availability in the pediatric ICU, neonatal ICU and gynecology.
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For their part, in the Chicamocha and Los Comuneros clinics, there are indeed restrictions on the entry of patients.
Prada Ramírez indicated that he attended to the news reported in Foscal and reported that “the situation is being reviewed, since initially an overoccupation was indicated which, according to conversations with manager Jorge Ricardo León Franco, is not true. The truth is that some users have relocated and in the next few hours they will issue a statement with exact information on the current occupancy.”
According to the official report, the institutions where services and beds are available are the Cardiovascular Foundation Clinic, the International Hospital of Colombia, the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Floridablanca, the Piedecuesta Clinic, the Bucaramanga Clinic and the Dromédica Clinic. Likewise, at the provincial level, in Vélez, Comunera, Guanentá and García Rovira, there is normality in the provision and beds are available for those who require them.
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The official said that the increase in demand for medical care is due, among others, to the increase in dengue cases since the metropolitan area is a reference for patient care from other departments such as Arauca, southern Bolívar, Aguachica and Ocaña del Cesar. and North Santander.
Secretary Prada Ramírez ruled out the declaration of Orange Alert and called on the community to appropriately use the first and second level network services of the entire department, which are also decisive.
