THE HOMELAND | Manizales
Three Manizales institutions are indicated by users, health observers and local authoritiesas for the state of the elevators they have to facilitate access to services.
LA PATRIA published situations with the elevators of the Ospedale Clinic and of the IPS Virrey Solís (Las Palmas). Today what happened with the building of the Coffee Hemocenter, in the San Rafael sector. Keep in mind:
At the Ospedale Clinic
The Territorial Health Directorate of Caldas (DTSC) closed the emergency room at the Ospedale Clinic on February 27, lack of stretcher lift who must transfer delicate patients from that area to other hospital areas. That was a requirement that the control entity had made since November 2021.
The first of March They opened the service so as not to hinder medical activities in the city, since other institutions reported increases. The thing is In Ospedale, Total Health users and children and pregnant women from Sanitas, Coosalud and Cosmitet were served.. They had been moved to other points.
Olga Piedad Cárdenas, health monitor and president of the Alliance of Total Health Users and the Ospedale Clinic, complained about the closure at that time and asked heavy hand of the authorities.
Initially, the work schedule detailed that it would be delivered last Wednesday, but that did not happen. Ospedale requested an extension from the DTSC and they left May 3 as a new date.
“There are significant advances that are now more of white work, like painting, so that it looks good,” said Cárdenas, who recalled that The institution has other elevators for the mobility of patients, visitors and collaborators.
At the IPS Vicerey Solís
The elevator at this point, according to users Octavio Marín Ospina and María Cielo Ceballos Jaramillo, had not worked since October of last year. That forced them, other older adults and people with disabilities to go up to the second and third floors on your own. Yesterday they reported the good news that on the day it had begun to operate.
“This did directly affect patients, especially those with mobility problems. There was a lot of trouble for dental servicessince the units were at the third level,” stressed Olga Piedad Cárdenas.
Other services such as general medicine and specialties and internal medicine were applied on the first floor, a place where specialists descended when a person who had an appointment required it.
In San Rafael
In what was known a few years ago as the headquarters of the EPS Health Lifewhich has three floors, too a situation was noticed with the elevator. In the first level are the Coffee Hemocenter and the parking lot; in the second, a oncology clinic; and the third is divided into two IPS.
A month ago a group of kidney patients complained that They did not have access to the elevator, since it was closed so as not to be used by any user. They regretted the fact, because his health conditions required it.
To access your service, with all its problems, They had to use spiral metal stairs, which are outdoors exposed to water.. They claim that some fell.
The Personería of Manizales and Olga Piedad Cárdenas reached the point last Friday. After some efforts they managed to enable the elevatorwhich will improve the perception of attention in the place.
