The mayor of garachico, Jose Heriberto Gonzalez (CC)celebrates the recent opening and start-up of the two major outpatient surgery operating rooms in the call North Hospitalin Icod of the Wines, but remember that there is still a lot to be done to make this facility a true hospital. Among the pending demands, “at least since 2015,” González cites the improvement of the resources of diagnostic imagingspace for chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients and for those affected by hematological problems, pediatric emergencies, improvement in human and material resources of the emergency servicesand the study of the possible implantation of delivery rooms.
“We celebrate and appreciate the announcement by the regional Ministry of Health of the commissioning, finally, of the operating rooms of Ambulatory major surgery (CMA) in the North Hospital, although it arrives several years late. There are two operating rooms that began to be enabled five years ago and that will be used to perform operations that do not require hospitalization. I hope they work every day at a sufficient time to accommodate the largest number of patients possible ”, emphasizes the Garachiquense president.
Consider it Good news, but he does not stop insisting that “for this center to function as a true useful hospital and offer the services that all the citizens of the region expect, its portfolio of services must be completed as soon as possible. as we have come claiming since 2015regardless of who has held the ownership of the Ministry of Health and the Government of the Canary Islands”.
“In order for this center to function as a true useful hospital and offer the services that all the citizens of the region expect, its portfolio of services must be completed as soon as possible”
Regarding diagnostic imaging, González understands that the region needs to have “high-resolution contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, more modern ultrasound machines and specialized technical personnel,” which would avoid numerous transfers to the metropolitan area of patients from the Northwest.
He sees it as essential that the Hospital del Norte have “an area for chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients and for patients with hematological problems, with a hospital pharmacy that prepares the appropriate serums to avoid the suffering of that weekly trip to the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC) of patients suffering from these diseases.
The nationalist president insists on the need to have pediatricians in emergency hours “to guarantee adequate care for the emergencies of the children of this part of the island.” In addition, it stresses that the current emergency service must have “the adequate human and technical resources to carry out its function in an absolutely effective manner. Something very important due to the distance of this area from the reference hospitalwhich is the HUC”.
The mayor of garachico nor does it renounce the possibility that the Hospital del Norte may have delivery rooms in the future to care for women from municipalities such as Buenavista, Los Silos, El Tanque, Garachico, Icod de los Vinos or La Guancha, which would prevent them from sometimes having to travel more than 65 kilometers away. A journey that usually lasts an hour, but that at peak times may require two or three hours on the road.
current services
The Ministry of Health reported at the end of November that the Hospital del Norte, dependent on the University Hospital Complex of the Canary Islands, “will be able to perform plastic surgery and dermatology, urology, ophthalmology, gynecology and general surgery”. A surface area of 780 square meters, it has two operating theaters, an exterior waiting room and an interior waiting room, a medical consultation, ante-operating room, an awakening area, an area for adaptation to the environment, a storage room, a handwashing room, changing rooms for surgical personnel, and control and admission. The investment made amounts to 1.3 million euros for the work and 759,757 for equipment, including instruments.The team of professionals is made up of 23 people, including nurses, a supervisor, auxiliary nursing care technicians, orderlies, administrative assistants, operators cleaner and driver.
The Hospital del Norte currently has 49 hospitalization beds, a Day Hospital, an Outpatient Pharmacy, an emergency department and outpatient clinics for cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, dermatology, the digestive system, endocrinology and nutrition, rehabilitation, general and digestive surgery, traumatology and orthopedics, gynecology and obstetrics, urology, otorhinolaryngology and audiometry, ophthalmology, hematology, nephrology, vascular surgery and rheumatology. Psychiatry is attended at the Icod Health Center. Blood draws are also performed.
The complementary tests that are carried out are spirometry, electrocardiography, remote control of pacemakers, audiometry, nasofibroscopy, diabetes education and nutrition, implanted reservoir lavage, simple radiology, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance, venous echo-doppler, echocardiography, point of blood extraction, minor ambulatory surgery, campimetry, pachymetry, ocular computed tomography (oct), retinography, high-resolution consultations with echo doppler, biological therapy for rheumatic inflammatory disease and holter for blood pressure control.
