The Hospital del Sur will add two operating rooms in the first half of next year, while continuing to develop the implementation of the new Hemodialysis Unit, which will be put out to tender in the first quarter of next year. These are the improvements that the Government of the Canary Islands in the hospital center located in the municipality of Arona.
These and other performances were announced yesterday by the president of Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijoand the health advisor from the regional Executive, Esther Monzón, to the Pro Hospital Public Platform of the South of Tenerife. At the meeting, held at the Presidency headquarters in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the president of the Cabildo of TenerifeRosa Dávila, and the director of the SCSCarlos Díaz.
Another of the actions planned by eThe Canarian Government concerns emergency care, which will be reinforced with an increase in laboratory activity and computerized tomography studies 24 hours a day, which will allow greater agility and efficiency of this service, avoiding unnecessary trips to the Our Lady of Candelaria Hospitalespecially at night, by increasing the resolution of diagnostic tests at the Hospital del Sur.
TAC renewal
The regional Health Department is also working on renovating a TAC to provide it with superior technology and capacity. A CT or Computerized Axial Tomography is a diagnostic test that, through the use of X-rays, obtains radiographic images of the interior of the body in the form of cross sections or, if necessary, in the form of three-dimensional images. It thus allows us to discover everything from a tumor to another type of bone pathology.
Work is also being done on updating magnetic resonance equipment that would allow more complex studies to be undertaken at the Hospital del Sur, that currently cannot be carried out, avoiding the transfer of users to the two reference centers: the Canary Islands University Hospital and the Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Hospital. Likewise, Clavijo informed the ProHospital del Sur Platform of other improvements planned in the area of diagnostic tests, with the recent incorporation of a telemandoradiography equipment, which allows more complex studies to be carried out than conventional radiology equipment and that complements the diagnostic area. by image of this hospital center.
Chemotherapy Unit
Another priority action to increase the portfolio of services, meeting the population’s demand for care, is the implementation of a chemotherapy unit in the hospital center so that cancer patients can receive their treatment in their basic area of care. health without having to go to the La Candelaria Hospital.
To implement these actions, the necessary personnel will be hired, including radiodiagnostic specialist technicians, laboratory technicians, nurses and nursing assistants, among other personnel.
