Covid causes another peak in care and forces beds in Internal Medicine to be doubled

Health sources admit that “the San Pedro Hospital has registered a few days ago a peak in care caused by the increase in respiratory infections and other pathologies that, especially in older people, exacerbate their chronic processes”, a rebound that after the festive long weekend forced Seris to double beds in the Internal Medicine ward, specifically in two controls, “to guarantee assistance in the center within the usual contingency plan,” recall the same sources, who after admitting that “although it is expected that, gradually, reduce attendance in the summer months”, they also insist that “care peaks can be repeated, but the hospital can adapt to the care pressure by applying different resources in a staggered manner.” In this sense, they reiterate that “although the activity of the center may be intense at specific times, the deployment of the reorganization measures collected allows the increase in demand to be channeled towards various devices, making it possible for all the people who have attended any health center to have “they were able to receive the attention they needed.”

Guaranteed assistance

María Martín also referred to this matter this Friday during a visit to Cibir to present a patented device to support a customizable treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. Asked about Satse’s complaint about the closure of hospital beds in the summer, 10,643 in Spain, 53 of them in La Rioja, the Health Minister insisted on the contingency plan, of which she highlighted that “of course it always guarantees assistance, but it must be applied wisely, without having more resources than necessary.

In this sense, he recalled that health care falls every year except in tourist areas, such as on the coast, where it grows by 10%: “It also happens in La Rioja, with the exception of Rioja Baja or in the mountains, and “It is a matter of common sense that if we have these data of decrease in attendance and interventions, it is normal to have the necessary resources at this time, especially coinciding with the vacations of many health professionals.”

The counselor has also been questioned about the CSIF’s complaint about the lack of a doctor in Murillo, an accusation that she has categorically rejected. «In the Murillo health center there was a doctor who has returned to his city of origin because he got a job, this is a very normal thing throughout the National Health System and what is done is to cover that consultation with the rest of colleagues. Right now in Murillo the population is being cared for in the same way as it was before but with the rest of the doctors, until that position is taken out and another doctor occupies it,” she defended.

Without losing her smile, the head of Health has not forgotten to launch a complaint by pointing out that “you cannot alarm the population all day as if in La Rioja there was a different problem from the rest of Spain. It is true that there is a health emergency due to the lack of professionals, but an autonomous community cannot provide more doctors nor can it have more professionals of any specialty nor can it cause the MIR positions to be increased or all of them covered; The only thing we can do is ask for it and while managing the resources and that is being done in a way that is worth taking our hats off.”

Next, María Martín also wanted to convey her support and gratitude “to the managers and professionals for the great effort that is being made to continue covering this assistance” and to insist on the central message that care is guaranteed: “There is a plan summer and it has already been said that no basic health area will be closed in these months,” he concluded.