The Molina Orosa Hospital continues to activate new contingency plans in the face of the increase in Covid cases in Lanzarote, which raises fears of new admissions. Even though the center has prepared to have 110 beds if necessary, there is also a plan to adapt a "field hospital" in the old supply rooms, attached to the central building, "where work is already underway to install 20 new beds with Nursing control."
However, the Ministry of Health specifies that this would only be used "in the worst of hypothetical situations." For the moment, since last week the Surgery floor has already been allocated to Covid patients, incorporating 47 beds (until this Wednesday morning there were 33 people admitted to the floor and another nine in the ICU).
In addition, the management of Lanzarote Health Services also contemplates "the opening of the medical-surgical floor with 32 available beds and, as a last resort, the Internal Medicine floor could be opened for Covid-19 patients, which would mean an increase of 41 more beds."
On the other hand, the Ministry points out that "in order to continue working with the rest of the patients, there is a collaboration agreement between the Canary Islands Health Service and the Hospital with the private clinic of Hospiten, which would allow the admission of up to 30 patients."
New ICU beds, as almost 100% are covered
Regarding the care of critical patients, several areas of the center have been reconfigured and converted into Intensive Care Units. In this way, in addition to the 10 beds contemplated by the traditional ICU, currently with 9 patients with Covid-19, there are 7 beds installed in the Major Outpatient Surgery unit (CMA), as well as another 4 beds in the Post-Surgical Resuscitation Unit (REA). Similarly, 10 beds have been prepared in the operating room areas and 12 in the Postanesthesia Recovery Unit (URPA), which totals 43 beds.
"If necessary, they could reach 56, given that if the situation in the ICU worsens, the conversion of the Short Stay Emergency unit is planned, which would provide 13 more beds," the Ministry specifies, which emphasizes that "all these measures and the adaptation of the Hospital currently involve an enormous coordinated effort by the team of professionals, in order to respond to this third wave of the pandemic in the hospital environment."
Meanwhile, it recalls that Primary Care professionals "continue working to prevent the transmission of the disease with the daily effort of the trackers who have seen their work multiplied, and the adoption of strategies for the health care required at this stage, while planning the vaccination schedule against Covid-19."
