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Intersidical Canaria has demanded on Monday that the new emergency service facilities at the Hospital Universitario de la Candelaria, in Tenerife, be opened, claiming the delay is “unjustified”.
In a statement, Intersindical noted that the blocking of emergency services in the Canary Islands is due to the collapse of the public healthcare system over recent decades, faced with an overgrowth in population and a similar number of beds and resources with a government management that is “repeatedly erratic”.
In the case of Tenerife, additional factors such as ongoing low investment in human resources, materials, and infrastructures, as well as work overload, care pressures, precariousness, and legal insecurity, contribute to the “unjustified and repeated” delay in opening the new emergency facilities at Hospital Universitario de La Candelaria.
Opening announced for 2024
An opening announced for the end of last year would “dignify” the situation for patients and users in the current emergency service and serve as a “real contingency plan” for Tenerife, where prompt healthcare should not depend on the patient’s health area based on their residence.
In 2019, the works began after being allocated 4 million euros, but six years later, the government has yet to provide a date for its operation. The needed immediacy for this work relates to the dire circumstances being faced by patients, users, and professionals.
Pending actions
Apparently, the work is awaiting the installation of the wastewater treatment plant and the footbridge that should connect the main building, with the causes of these construction shortcomings unknown.
For Intersindical, “given these statements, we understand that the construction must be taken over by the healthcare administration, and the pending work must be completed immediately for operation.”
Currently, the waiting room is located in “containers”, with limitations in space and ventilation; in the care area, patients are crowded on stretchers, with no hint of privacy beyond a screen or curtain and no physical space for professionals to provide basic care adequately.
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