The Management of the Health Services of Lanzarote, attached to the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, has launched two new Emergency services in the health centers of Tías and Titerroy, in Arrecife, since this Monday.
"After analyzing the new circumstances of the healthcare and epidemiological situation due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Management has adopted a new organization whose objective is to recover the healthcare activity of the patients," they point out in a statement. In that sense, and in accordance with the General Directorate of Primary Care of the Canary Health Service, a new 24-hour Emergency service is established in the Tías Health Center, which begins to operate this Monday, and a 12-hour Continuous Care Point in the Titerroy Health Center, which will be operational from Monday to Friday.
"These new services complement and alleviate the existing pressure both in the Emergency Rooms of the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital and those of the Valterra Health Center," they emphasize from the Management.
In addition, as of this Monday, the Primary Care Clinics of Puerto del Carmen, Haría and Tahíche, which had remained closed during the health crisis generated by the pandemic, have also been reopened. Likewise, the health centers of Tinajo and Yaiza recover their usual hours and will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Security measures continue in each center
This set of measures is added to the organizational changes for the care of patients in the different health centers and clinics on the Island, which follows the organizational management protocol of the healthcare activity prepared by the Ministry of Health. Thus, Primary Care adapts its operation with the aim of providing patients with "the greatest safety in the context of recovery after the coronavirus crisis."
In this sense, and to specifically prevent the possible transmission of the virus in the Emergency Rooms of hospitals and Primary Care centers and, therefore, in the most vulnerable population, the Management has established a care circuit for suspected cases. Thus, health centers and clinics will be equipped to have two care circuits: non-respiratory and respiratory. "This is to guarantee the safety of the patient and the SCS professionals themselves," they explain.
It should be remembered that, in this phase of recovery of healthcare activity, patient care in health centers is conditioned, as a general rule, to having a prior telephone appointment. Likewise, the request for issuance or renewal of the Treatment Plan will continue to be managed preferably through telephone consultation, leaving the need to go to the health center at the discretion of the physician.
?The Primary Care centers of Lanzarote will maintain the screening or triage table at the entrance to guarantee access to the center for those people who have been previously cited. For their part, both the Management and the Primary Care Directorate in Lanzarote request citizen collaboration to continue making reasonable use of the Emergency services.
