After a transfer of $5 billion to the Tarapacá Health Service, ACRUX Foundation began the execution of the first 1,800 benefits to patients from Iquique and Tamarugal.
From May 2 to 5, the Waiting List reduction operation carried out by the Tarapacá Health Service together with the Acrux Foundation and the Government of Tarapacá will be extended.
An initiative that seeks to cover, in a first stage, nearly 1,800 first-care services to patients with needs in 13 specialties, such as: rheumatology, consultation neurology, Children’s surgery, adult bronchopulmonary, adult surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, EDA ( gastroenterology), COLONO (coloproctology), adult nephrology, consultation ophthalmology, echo gynecology, radiology – Eco breast.
This operation is carried out through the National Regional Development Fund, FNDR, of the Government of Tarapacá, for $5 billion, resources destined to the Tarapacá Health Service, within the framework of the project “Subsidy Resolution of GES and non-GES Waiting Lists” , which hopes to benefit, in total, 32,017 users of the public health system.
In this sense, Acrux Foundation, a non-profit institution that has been providing free and decisive medical services throughout the national territory for 20 years, will be in charge of making 28 volunteers available during the days that the operation lasts.
The Regional Governor of Tarapacá, José Miguel Carvajal, who was present at the beginning of this initiative, noted that “the idea is to strengthen public health with additional resources, which allow the work carried out by the Health Service to be complemented and can increase the coverage of people who today urgently require care. Today there are about 1,800 benefits, but the project and the magnitude that we estimate is about 30 thousand beneficiaries who, in the coming months and years of this program, will precisely benefit from these additional resources.”
Meanwhile, the director of the Tarapacá Health Service, María Paz Iturriaga, emphasized the importance of this operation for patients.
“There are people who have been coming for a primary care consultation for many years and the specialist has not been able to see them, therefore, they cannot continue to have surgery, for example, without that consultation with the previous specialist. Those who accompany us today are essential, because all the patients who come to us through the waiting list are referred from primary care where the general practitioner has investigations, some problem and refers them. That referral is what we are attending to today with the help of these specialists,” said the director.
The services of this operation will take place in the Fourth Naval Zone, the Iquique Hospital and the Alto Hospicio Hospital, the latter establishment being where the greatest number of care will be concentrated. It should be noted that, during the first day, 90 gynecological ultrasounds and more than 100 fundus examinations were performed.
