The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands will extend the southern hospital with the construction of a 20,000 square meter building and an investment of 40 million euros. With this, the South and Southwest Hospital will have the same category as the Hospital University of the Canary Islands (HUC) and the University Hospital Our Lady of Candelaria (Hunsc). The announcement was made yesterday by the Minister of Health, Blaise Trujilloin the regional Parliament, who stressed that the health complex of The mojon (Arona) will be the third of the third level Island.
The Canary Islands Health Service will build the new building through an addendum to the agreement with the Cabildo de Tenerife. The work will allow not only to increase the area of the health complex by 20,000 square meters, but it will also allow another 8,000 for the reorganization of the spaces. With all this, the Hospital del Sur will have a total area of 47,000 square meters.
The new building, which will be connected to the health complex in use, will house new healthcare services, such as the Adult and Pediatric Intensive Care Units (ICU), the specific Pediatrics area, the Dialysis service, the Day Hospital and the expansion of the surgical area and other current benefits, such as Pharmacy. In addition, the building will have warehouses, workshops and administrative and management areas. The Minister of Health explained that, in this way, the regionalization of specialized care in Tenerife will be completed through its geographical approach to the population of the South and Southwest regions.
service portfolio
In his speech, Blas Trujillo presented data to highlight the importance of this installation. He reported that in the surgical block The Hospital del Sur performs operations in the specialties of Ophthalmology, Gynaecology, General Surgery, Traumatology, Dermatology and Urology, this being the last to be incorporated into the portfolio of services. The forecast is that “in the short term” Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery operations will also be carried out.
The Regional Minister of Health referred to the fact that during the second half of last year in these operating rooms 1,856 interventions were carried out, of which 1,097 corresponded to Ophthalmology, 114 to Gynaecology, 447 to Dermatology, 147 to Traumatology and 51 to General and Digestive Surgery.
One year after surgery
On April 23, 2021, the first two operating rooms of the Hospital del Sur came into service, after an odyssey that included the stoppage of the work and a delay of three years. The Hospital del Sur has 116 installed beds, 25 consulting rooms and 10 Day Hospital posts for various outpatient treatments. Its portfolio of services includes outpatient consultations for medical and surgical specialties, telemedicine, functional tests for diagnosis and monitoring of pathologies in various specialties and digestive endoscopy, Multipurpose Day Hospital (including oncology), Emergency Service (adults and pediatrics), Radiology and CT; Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy, hospitalization, laboratory, pharmacy (external dispensing) and gym for rehabilitation
In the same period, the Laboratory added more than a million studies; the Cardiology, Dermatology, Digestive System, Gynecology, Pneumology, Otorhinolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Rehabilitation and Urology Specialized Care cabinets completed 80,894 functional tests, as well as another 40,000 radiodiagnostic tests, including simple radiography, ultrasounds, mammograms, computerized axial tomography (CAT) and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR).
From July to December, the activity at the Hospital del Sur included care for more than a thousand Emergencies and 65,688 specialized consultations, 31,232 were face-to-face, 31,939 teleconsultations and 2,517 telephone consultations.
Health is working on the tender for a Dialysis Unit project for the El Mojón health complex. It will be established in its own space already available. Its commissioning will take place with 16 posts, in addition to consultations and specific devices to promote home dialysis. A service that will avoid transfers to many patients in the region.
