The Tarapacá Regional Council, CORE, headed by the Regional Governor, José Miguel Carvajal, approved a total of $5,978,392,000 million from the National Regional Development Fund (FNDR), for the execution of four important projects.
The first is called “Replacement and acquisition of equipment and equipment Iquique Adult Critical Patient Unit” and will provide the Iquique Hospital with 10 procedure carts and a total of 154 pieces of equipment, including: 2 portable blood analyzers, 45 electric beds, 5 central units monitoring, 2 color Doppler echocardiographs, 2 ultrasound machines, 4 electrocardiographs, 1 electroencephalograph and 7 pulse generators for external pacemakers, 1 bariatric transfer hoist with transfer kit, 2 continuous renal replacement machines, 5 defibrillator monitors with arrest cart, 40 highly complex multiparameter monitors, 24 invasive mechanical ventilators, 5 invasive transport mechanical ventilators and 8 non-invasive mechanical ventilators.
The second corresponds to the project called “Acquisition of pathogen illuminating equipment and automatic fractionation, UTM, Hospital”, which will provide greater autonomy to the Blood Bank of the main healthcare facility in the region. Both initiatives were presented by the Tarapacá Health Service for more than $3,700 million (M$3,729,274).
“We are going to have more resources at the Iquique Hospital because we are allocating nearly 3.7 billion pesos to critical equipment that is essential for officials and officers to do a great job at the Iquique Hospital,” said Governor José Miguel Carvajal who, after this approval, gave the go-ahead for the Medical Equipment Plan that he announced last February for the Iquique Hospital for $15 billion.
The director of the Tarapacá Health Service, María Paz Iturriaga, expressed her “satisfaction” with the support of the highest authority and the collegiate body in the presentation of these initiatives.
“These are pieces of equipment that are going to replace equipment from the Adult ICU of the Regional Hospital, the only ICU we have in the region with these characteristics and which have already passed their useful life and, therefore, we need to replace them urgently. The second project comes to give us autonomy in our Blood Bank, in the Transfusion Medicine Unit, because today we collect blood from donors, but all that blood has to go to the Valparaíso Blood Center, to which we are assigned as a region. . The equipment that they authorized us today allows us autonomy, that means that we will be able to process all of our blood in the region and that will allow us, in the face of a major problem, to deliver the requirements in a timely manner, understanding that as a Hospital We deliver blood to the entire network, including the private network,” said Iturriaga.
Security
The third initiative approved for an amount greater than $1,900 million (M$1,902,844), will allow the continuity of the project to strengthen the Tarapacá Regional Prosecutor’s Office, for the period 2024-2025.
This program was presented in 2022 by the institution, an instance in which the CORE approved nearly $1.5 billion for the hiring of 6 lawyers and 14 other professionals who carried out work in the Victims and Witnesses Care Unit, and the Alto prosecutor’s offices. Hospicio and Tamarugal. Added to this was the acquisition of technological equipment and improvements in the prosecutor’s offices.
Today, according to the regional prosecutor herself, Trinidad Steinert, these resources will be used to purchase more technological equipment and the “mobile prosecutor’s office.”
“We are very pleased with the approval of our project by the Regional Council. I want to emphasize how important the approval of these funds is for the Attorney General’s Office, because they are intended to improve criminal prosecution throughout the Tarapacá region. With these funds, we are going to invest in technology that will make criminal prosecution more efficient and also get closer to the community, since we are going to obtain a car, which is a kind of equipped van, which will function as a mobile prosecutor’s office, to visit the different localities of this region with a multidisciplinary team, giving an effective response to people,” said the prosecutor.
Public infrastructure
Finally, the project “Preservation of sidewalks in various sectors, Group 1, of the commune of Iquique”, which was formulated jointly between the Tara-Paka Project Accelerator Center and the Government of Tarapacá, seeks to activate the role of Gore as a Unit Works Execution Technician.
“We always maintained that through the country’s first Metropolitan Area we were going to propose a set of initiatives related to the Environment, Housing, Connectivity and Public Works, and today, this first group of interventions will be added to the renewal of public transportation, the efforts that we will make in infrastructure and equipment associated with the traffic control center, in addition to updating the diagnosis of the urban transportation system and the construction of more bicycle lanes,” said Carvajal, who indicated that the works linked to the first 346 million that will be will be injected from the National Regional Development Fund, FNDR, are part of an ambitious objective that involves innovation and acceleration.
