The Insular Secretariat of Welfare of Nueva Canarias Lanzarote, together with the Local Committees of Haría and Teguise, will present next Friday, June 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the session hall of the Sociedad Renacimiento de Mala, its project "Cuidar el Norte".
The Canarian organization assures that it has been working for some months on this project for the northern area of Lanzarote, where they propose "the implementation of a Continuous Care Point in the Mala Clinic". This would benefit, according to the formation, the Basic Health Zones of Teguise, with 15,327 users, plus the 461 users of the island of La Graciosa, and the 4,102 users of Mala.
The insular secretary of Welfare of NC, the nurse Yoné Caraballo, is committed to including a new Continuous Care Point, which is a pre-hospital emergency service, in the Mala Clinic, and that it be incorporated into the network of centers that currently make up the Health Area of Lanzarote.
"The Mala Clinic would remain open 24 hours, offering a continuous emergency service for the more than 20,000 users who could benefit from this proposal. Both the localities of the municipality of Haría, as well as the neighboring ones belonging to Teguise, which today are helpless in terms of comprehensive emergency and emergency care," says Yoné Caraballo.
The Canarian sees "a serious deficiency" that after 3:00 p.m. "no citizen of the north of the island has a health center to be attended to", forcing them to move either to the emergency room of the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital or to the Valterra Health Center.
According to NC, Lanzarote currently has "2 Advanced Life Support ambulance units with a doctor and nurse". "One of these ambulances is based at the Molina Orosa Hospital, while the second is located at the Playa Blanca clinic, both covering the central-southern axis," they detail from the formation.
"On the other hand, in the north of the island we do not have an Advanced Life Support unit, but a Basic Life Support ambulance in Arrieta with two Emergency Technicians with basic equipment," says Marcos Lemes, spokesman for the Haría Committee.
From a basic ambulance to a "sanitized" one
For the Canarians, the "Cuidar el Norte" project proposes the Mala clinic "as a new Continuous Care Point within the network of emergency centers on the island of Lanzarote", and that this allows "the improvement of the current Basic Life Support ambulance based in Arrieta with the incorporation of a nurse".
"In this way, it would go from a basic ambulance to a ''sanitized'' ambulance, where the capacity to react to a critical emergency is potentially greater. This ambulance would be based in the Mala clinic, and from there it would be activated for any alert in the northern area of the island," explain from Nueva Canarias.
"The ''sanitized'' ambulance based in Mala would exponentially improve survival in vital situations where the immediate intervention of a nurse specialized in emergencies is key. With this ambulance the north of the island would follow the emergency model for rural and remote areas such as La Aldea de San Nicolás in Gran Canaria," concludes Caraballo.
From NC they point out that the investment of this project by the Ministry of Health "would not represent a high cost in the global budget of the Canarian Health Service", since the Mala clinic currently maintains "unused spaces".
"Cuidar el Norte guarantees accessibility and equity in the provision of health care for citizens in terms of emergencies, taking into account the high number of neighbors who need public health and care services close to their residences," says Marcos Lemes.
With everything, NC wants to emphasize that its "Isla-Hogar" model promotes the idea of "coexistence regions". "It is a model of collaboration between neighboring localities and municipalities that improves collective action, inter-administrative collaboration and support in favor of improving efficiency and effectiveness in public services, leisure and cultural activities and the homogenization of urban, aesthetic and civic criteria," conclude from Nueva Canarias.