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MURCIA REGION
The emergency re-collapse for the third consecutive week
The Arrixaca breaks record with a score of patients in the hallways, while the Morales Meseguer suspends operations
22.02.12 - 00:40 -JP PARRA | MURCIA.
THE NUMBER
57
Emergency patients waited yesterday in La Arrixaca, first thing, to have free beds for admission plants
The emergency department of The Arrixaca woke up yesterday as a battlefield. 57 patients waiting for early transfer to plant, where the facilities can accommodate only 40. The hallways were filled with beds until late afternoon. At half past eleven, 'The Truth' could see how there were three riders fully occupied with rows of patients waiting stoically. "We will begin taking the fourth hallway beds," said a professional stoicism, after three weeks of collapse.
In the waiting room, Flor Maria Parrales send news waiting for him to see her husband, who remained bedridden with pneumonia. Come Monday, at nine o'clock. In ER decided its income, but 27 hours later, still had not been transferred to a ward. "Yesterday morning we were told that they would take him to a room throughout the afternoon, but in the end there was no free holes and had to stay here all night," explained his wife.
Although yesterday broke the record Arrixaca, medical management could prevent far more difficult one: the suspension of scheduled operations. "It means a huge inconvenience for patients and their families, and so is the last resort. We have streamlined high derivative concerted patients to hospitals and transferred to the Maternal nine patients, "said Jose Domingo Cubillana, medical director.
The situation was especially complicated yesterday also in the Morales Meseguer. Earlier, 29 patients remained in the ER without being transferred to plants because the hospital was full. The management suspended two scheduled operations, and also reached out to the 16 beds that Morales has mattress on the fourth floor, for the moments of greatest pressure. The Reina Sof?a better withstood the onslaught of patients. As explained Jos? Luis Albarracin, deputy director of Health Care Health Service of Murcia, was not even necessary to open the pre-admission Unit (IPU), which itself last week was at full capacity.
In Cartagena, Rosell opened on Monday a plan to transfer 20 patients from the Emergency Hospital in Santa Lucia, which again became overloaded, said the deputy director of Health Care.