The Insular plans to duplicate emergencies with the transfer of the University College - La Provincia
The Government of the Canary Islands already has the initial project for the immediate expansion of the Insular Hospital, including emergency service, on the land now occupied by the former University College of Las Palmas (CULP), a disused building owned by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria. Responsible for the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) will present the next Monday in the island corporation, within the framework of the Last negotiations for the real estate cession between the public administrations, the functional plan with the needs and resources of the future infrastructure, which foresees almost doubling the capacity both in the boxes and in the triage of urgent patients, reported yesterday from the Department of Health of the regional government.
Through the elaboration of the functional document prior to the administrative transfer, it is intended "advance the deadlines and procedures that will require the reform of the CULP, especially taking into account that the creation of a new emergency service is the highest priority, "argued the same sources of the regional area led by José Manuel Baltar.Not in vain, the president of the Cabildo Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, already expressed, both verbally and officially, his willingness to sign an agreement after the request made by the director of the SCS, Conrado Domínguez, in mid-February.
Although the current public health officials have been working on the CULP project since the beginning of 2018, the extension of the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria on the 6,160 square meter annexed land was not disseminated until a year later, specifically, until it was published in press last January, two months before the complaint filed by a score of doctors before the Prosecutor of Las Palmas for the "collapse" of the emergency facilities in the Vega de San José. Just one year before, in April 2018, the emergency service of the Hospital Insular premiered an extension of 250 square meters (14 boxes, psychiatric consultation and professional area) after an investment of 627,000 euros.
More than 110 boxes
With no deadlines or budget yet, pending the transfer of capacity, the functional plan includes an increase from 77 to 113 boxes in the emergency room, which will also have eight psychiatric beds and a specific module for elderly patients.
"The objective is to respond to the need to adapt this service to the demand for care, taking into account the level of the hospital where it is located, its portfolio of services and its reference population", explained from the counseling before basing the project in the estimation of patients in 2028, "taking as a reference the analysis of data from 2012 to the present, the Canarias Health Emergency Plan (Pluscan) and the standards and recommendations for the units (...) of the Ministry of Health " However, the plan also includes an area of expansion "in case the growth of demand exceeds the capabilities of the service", among other areas such as diagnostic imaging, transportation for ambulances, staff, family members or warehouses.
