The PSOE denounces the “saturation” of the Emergency services in the Canary Islands due to the excess of activity of acute patients
·The spokesperson for Health of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Miguel Ángel Pérez del Pino shows the “absolute rejection” of the decision of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) not to continue referring these elderly, dependent and/or helpless patients who are permanently occupying beds in the Canary Islands hospitals
The spokesperson for Health of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Miguel Ángel Pérez del Pino, has denounced the "saturation" of the Emergency services of the Canary Islands due to "an excess of healthcare activity of acute patients and with seasonal pathologies, and without beds to be occupied by those who require admission”.
Pérez del Pino criticized during the last parliamentary health commission in an appearance requested by the Socialist Group, that, thanks to the “unsupportive” position of the mayor of Mogán, Onalia Bueno, and the “lack of decision-making” of the Minister of Health, Esther Monzón, “the corridors of the Emergency services of the hospitals of the Canary Islands will be full of stretchers with patients waiting to have a bed to be admitted, and even more so, with the upcoming arrival of seasonal pathologies such as flu, colds and COVID”.
In this line, he recalled that this occurred during the past holiday of October 12, with a collapse of the Emergency services of several hospitals in the Canary Islands, such as the Insular Hospital of Gran Canaria, with more than 300 daily patients, and the University Hospital of the Canary Islands, in Tenerife, “with endless queues of patients and ambulances waiting to be attended to due to the lack of beds and stretchers, being denounced by the professionals of both hospital complexes”.
According to the spokesperson for Health of the Socialist Group, “the situation in the healthcare of the waiting lists and in the management of the Emergency services would improve substantially, being able to free up the 549 beds occupied in all the hospitals of the Canary Islands by social patients, who are mostly elderly and dependent, our Canary Islanders, whose personal situation of lack of resources, housing or family care keeps them in a state of helplessness, referring them to temporary and intermediate social health centers such as the one in Mogán”.
The deputy for Gran Canaria showed the "absolute rejection" of the Socialist Party to the decision of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS), not to continue referring these elderly, dependent and/or helpless patients who are permanently occupying beds in the Canary Islands hospitals.
“The SCS has in its hands a technical and legal instrument that allows it to improve the living and care conditions of these patients in intermediate and temporary resources, while improving the care of these and other patients, with costs for the health system much lower than that of a hospital bed and with more adequate care and attention for this type of social patients, and simultaneously, the quality of care for acute patients in the Emergency services is improved and new surgical interventions on the waiting lists that are waiting for a bed to be operated on are accelerated”, he added.
Likewise, Pérez del Pino indicated that the Socialist Party will bring a Non-Law Proposal to this Plenary of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, so that these patients continue to be referred to temporary and intermediate social health resources and improve, thus freeing up beds in hospitals and, simultaneously, improving healthcare activity in the Emergency services, as well as attending to more acute patients who are waiting for an intervention on waiting lists.
