The Nursing Union, Satse Canarias, has denounced this Thursday the situation of “care pressure” suffered by the emergencies of the Canary Islands University Hospital (HUC), “which, far from improving, increases considerably with each passing day.”
In a statement, the union has assured that it receives complaints daily from professionals, who state that they are “exhausted” by the workload to which they are subjected in the emergency service and that it has become a common situation.
“In fact, many of them, with extensive experience in the service, have requested transfer to other services due to the precarious conditions in which they are forced to work,” the union organization has delved.
In this sense, it refers to the lack of space to accommodate patients, “with cases of patients in the waiting room of relatives of the ICU”, the high number of patients and the “long hours of waiting” that they are experiencing, To which is added, Satse said, the lack of stretchers and adequate resources for health care.
For the union, all this “is putting both the occupational health of professionals and the health of the population at risk.”
Satse has also reported that Emergency Service professionals “begin their work day with a delay in providing care to users that, on occasions, has been up to 12 hours, without stretchers for patients who arrive by ambulance (up to 11 ambulances waiting for a stretcher), with patients who need constant reassessment and who are irritated by the delay in care they are suffering.”
For the union organization, it is “fundamental” that they stop “putting patches” on a situation “that has become unsustainable, both for professionals and for patients and families.”
Satse has also asked the HUC management to prioritize the evaluation of the care burden and psychosocial risks, “requested by this union organization for a year now, and to establish clear protocols for patient care, the availability of beds and access to the resources and materials necessary for health care,” concludes the union.
