SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 11 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Blas Trujillo, has admitted this Monday that there is still “climbing the Himalayas” to lower the waiting lists in public health but he has valued the “effort” of the entire department and the workers to close 2021 with almost the same figures as in 2019, before the pandemic, with just 3,000 fewer interventions.
In response to questions from the Nationalist and Popular Groups in the Health Commission, he commented that the pandemic “brutally conditions” the entire healthcare system and the waiting lists fell in the first semester because there were no tickets and now, “a Despite the enormous effort to normalize assistance, it rises, here and in all systems, because the contained demand comes”.
He has detailed that interventions outside the usual day have grown by 9.1% last year compared to 2019 and outpatient surgery has been almost the same.
Trujillo has also indicated that the Canarian health system is well “valued” and in fact is one of the “flags” as a tourist destination for which he has criticized the nationalist deputy, José Alberto Díaz Estébanez, for his “contempt” for work and effort of the professionals. “They do not deserve it”.
The counselor has commented that the effects of the pandemic “are terrible” on the health system and “there is a long way to go” but he is convinced that they will “achieve” improve results.
He pointed out that the audit of the waiting lists prepared by the two Canarian universities pointed out that the treatment was “satisfactory” since “neither modification nor alteration” of data was observed, although he did recognize that the wait for surgical tests had no information “of the all reliable.
To deal with this situation, it has indicated that “improvements” are made in the software and in the connectivity of all the data to create a centralized registry of patients on waiting lists and achieve the homogenization of information.
This record, he assured, will allow monitoring and evaluation of activity in hospitals.
THE PP REQUESTS A SECOND AUDIT
Díaz-Estébanez (CC-PNC) has criticized the contempt for a PP motion in the last plenary session in the face of the “worsening” of the waiting lists in the archipelago, both surgical and diagnostic in the second half of 2021, making the Trujillo his absence in the session.
It has also rejected that the Government “distribute flowers and prizes” for its management of the pandemic and that the ‘Aborda Plan’ is called a “success” after spending more than 200 million, a 25% more surgical waiting list, a 13.4% more for diagnostic tests and with more than 24,000 canaries on the waiting list.
The nationalist deputy has defended the effort and professionalism of health workers but has rejected “the riqui raca” of the Executive in view of the figures on the waiting lists.
Miguel Ángel Ponce (PP) has requested a second audit of the waiting lists to review the information systems given that in the first it was said that the inclusion criteria “were not homogeneous” in hospitals, the data was not “reliable” , there were “delays” in the transfer of data if the operation was performed in a concerted center, and “a great difference” was observed in the waiting list between hospitals.
For them, he has pointed to the need for this second audit so that it can also analyze the impact of the pandemic, promote the automation of data and break down the waiting list by type of pathology.
