The Minister of Health, Carolina Dariashas toured the facilities of the University Hospital of Our Lady of La Candelaria, in Tenerifeto know the spaces that are going to house the 12 new high-tech equipment which will be located in services such as Hemodynamic Cardiology, Radiotherapy, Radiodiagnosis and Nuclear Medicine, within the Investment Plan for High Technology Equipment (INVEAT) promoted by the Ministry of Health, thanks to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
The execution of the INVEAT Plan in the Canary Islands will mean the distribution of more than 38 million euros between 2021 and 2022 for the acquisition of 40 pieces of equipment that will be distributed in 9 hospital centers in the Archipelago.
Darias stressed that this Plan is one of the most important health programs in our country that will allow the renewal or replacement of high-tech equipment in hospitals in Spain and that it represents a total investment of 795 million euros. “A unique and unprecedented investmentwhich is going to mean a before and after in the public health system of Spain, the Canary Islands, Tenerife and this hospital centre”, the minister stated.
During the visit, Darias was accompanied by the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, the Government delegate, Anselmo Pestana; the Minister of Health, Blas Trujillo; the manager of the Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria University Hospital, Natacha Sujanani Afonso and the rest of the health personnel.
Specifically, the investment in the Hospital Universitario de Nuestra Señora de La Candelaria will be made in linear accelerators, vascular angiographs, a planning and a spectral CT, two gamma cameras, brachytherapy equipment, an MRI, a Hemodynamics room and a PET-CT and “will serve to improve diagnostic capacity, especially in early stages to commit all kinds of diseases that have an impact on people’s lives and also on our health system because our goal is to improve people’s lives” Darias has asserted.
Merit contest in health services
Likewise, Darias has announced that the Ministry is preparing with the autonomous communities an exceptional call to combat temporality aimed at those people who have been working in regional health services since before 2016, who will be given a merit contest, “the same What happened to education?
