The Health Emergency Management Committee of the Government of the Canary Islands, whose creation was approved this Thursday in the session of the Governing Council, was established this Friday and held its first meeting. In it, a series of measures were adopted in relation to the health crisis generated by the COVID-19 coronavirus, including initiating the procedures for private clinics to make "all available beds" available to the Ministry for the management of this crisis. To this end, a "coordination meeting" is scheduled for this Friday afternoon.
Chaired by the head of the autonomous executive, Ángel Víctor Torres, the Committee has approved new measures for the management of the health crisis and other decisions were also adopted, including:
-That surgical operations in hospitals in the Canary Islands continue to be performed only in cases of maximum severity and only in those in which they cannot be postponed due to their severity. Otherwise, all planned or scheduled operations should be suspended.
-That the hospital beds currently used by chronic patients should no longer be used by them whenever they can be relocated to other spaces and that before this movement occurs, it is guaranteed, by carrying out the test, that they are negative for the virus infection.
-That all necessary mechanisms are activated so that private clinics in the Canary Islands provide all available beds for the care of health problems derived from COVID-19.
-It is agreed to put field hospitals for rapid testing at the disposal of the islands that require it, as one already operates in the municipality of La Laguna (Tenerife).
-The Committee was informed of the new arrival of kits for carrying out coronavirus tests.
-The Committee reiterates the request to have more sanitary material and transfers the need for these resources to reach the Islands as soon as possible. The maximum supply of sanitary material is demanded for emergency care.
-The distribution of masks in different social health centers of the Islands has also been activated.
