The Popular Party councilor and member of the Health Commission of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Maite Corujo, has stressed the need for the Government of the Canary Islands to allow professionals from the Insular Hospital to access, through the Drago system, the medical history of patients who use the geriatrics service and the rest of the medical consultations offered from this center dependent on the first corporation.
A demand that has been made for some time by the management of the center and that the Canary Islands Health Service refuses to satisfy despite the fact that there is no legal impediment to do so.
"It does not make much sense, not even from the point of view of data protection, because we are talking about information between medical professionals, that a patient who goes to a consultation at the Insular Hospital has to leave with their reports under their arm or that the information depends exclusively on what the person can remember, or not, at that moment", Corujo points out.
"It is a shame that in the 21st century, when both centers have exactly the same computer system, everything depends on a simple access code that the Ministry of Health does not want to provide", the councilor emphasizes. "A gesture that would give more agility and that would directly result in the improvement of the care received by users".
"What cannot be is that the integration of the Insular Hospital into the Canary Islands Health Service is more than a year late, that the Government of the Canary Islands has been delaying the process during all this time and that the Ministry of Health has not taken any steps to facilitate the work and improve the services that are demanded from the island."
"If there really is a real will to integrate, it is not understandable that progress cannot be made in this type of basic and important aspects such as having the medical reports of patients", explains the councilor.
"Until now we only have the breach of the promise made by CC to complete the integration of the Insular Hospital at the end of last year. Since then, every time we ask about the process, all we get is a string of meetings of commissions and subcommittees but nothing firm. If there is a will, allowing that access would be a good starting point", says Corujo.
