The Osorno Health Service thus responds to a need of the community, which It will allow greater resolution capacity in the emergency care of the establishment.
On June 21, just last June, the authorization of a 24/7 medical shift began at the Pu Mülen Hospital of Quilacahuín (HPQ), in the commune of San Pablo, with the implementation of which the Osorno Health Service (SSO) thus responds to a need desired by the community of the sector, which represents a milestone for the intercultural establishment and its users.
As explained by the Department of Articulation of the SSO Care Network, this new modality is materialized through the injection of medical human resources and TENS reinforcement, necessary to guarantee quality, timeliness and continuity of emergency care in the community facility.
And before this launch, this unit operated with medical hours from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., but now it has emergency care provided by a permanently resident medical professional with 24/7 coverage. , which will allow greater resolution capacity of the hospital, thus reducing referrals to the Osorno Base Hospital.
In this regard, the deputy medical director of the Pu Mülen Hospital, Dr. David Villegas, explained that with this new modality “the population will be able to access the emergency room of our hospital at all hours without any type of inconvenience, with an additional doctor who will be “He added, thanks to the initiative of the Health Service, with which we have seven doctors, therefore, we are going to have precisely 24-hour medical shifts.”
“This started on June 21, we are in a white march, so that in July we will see the first statistics of this process that is beginning, since the idea is for it to be as decisive a modality as possible,” the professional pointed out.
Community
On behalf of the organized community, the president (subrogative) of the HPQ Development Council, Gloria Saldivia, expressed that “we are happy with this news, because this has been requested for a long time and it has already worked, because suddenly here the People who got sick had to go to the Osorno Hospital, where they are always arriving from all over. So, for us this 24/7 shift here at the Quilacahuín Hospital is very good, it is an achievement.”
Meanwhile, the president of the Council of Indigenous Communities and Associations of the commune of San Pablo, Maritza Alvarado Tranayado, said that “we think it is fantastic that this can exist in a rural hospital, which is also quite far from the city for people who do not have transportation. So, I think this news is excellent, because it also prevents crowds at the Base Hospital. I would like to thank the people who were behind it and congratulate those who were consistent in this.”
