Post by account_disabled on Mar 15, 2024 23:43:41 GMT -5
The journalist @antoniomaestre has opened a thread on Twitter to denounce the precarious situation in which health centers in the Community of Madrid find themselves in the face of the uncontrolled increase in infections. The social network is being filled with images with posters reporting the collapse and the situation of health personnel. In many primary care centers the number of doctors is below the ratios. In the health center in Castilla la Nueva (Fuenlabrada), of doctors, are missing; At CS Lavapiés, there are only doctors out of “We are at half staff, they are not giving us reinforcements,” denounces the health personnel at the Alcalde Bartolomé González health center (Móstoles). The SATSE Nursing union has once again denounced the lack of staff and resources and warns that, without more nursing staff, the mobility restrictions prepared by the Government of Isabel Díaz-Ayuso "will not be effective.
\Health centers function precariously due to the lack of professionals, especially nurses, specialist nurses and physiotherapists,” they say. SATSE recalls that the detection of Covid depends in most cases on health centers that “are unable to AOL Email List offer the care required of them due to the lack of health professionals to carry it out” and warn that “ the situation that could worsen drastically” if the Ifema Hospital is opened, like the previous time, at the expense of the staff who work in primary care, so even more health centers could be closed. “There are no more PCR tests done, nor more cases detected, due to the lack of nurses.
It is not possible to correctly track positive Covid cases, both those detected by the center itself and those detected in hospitals due to a shortage of staff, and many Non-Covid patients, many of them with chronic pathologies, see how their Demands are postponed due to the lack of health professionals to be able to carry them out,” they explain from the Madrid Nursing Union. Likewise, they emphasize that the nursing, specialist nursing and primary care physiotherapist workforce “is not only scarce, but is the most precarious” of the entire national health system. "All the Communities have more nurses per , inhabitants than Madrid, health spending per inhabitant is also one of the lowest and salaries are well below the national average despite the fact that the regional government says that the region is the driving force of Spain and the cost of living is one of the highest,” they say.
\Health centers function precariously due to the lack of professionals, especially nurses, specialist nurses and physiotherapists,” they say. SATSE recalls that the detection of Covid depends in most cases on health centers that “are unable to AOL Email List offer the care required of them due to the lack of health professionals to carry it out” and warn that “ the situation that could worsen drastically” if the Ifema Hospital is opened, like the previous time, at the expense of the staff who work in primary care, so even more health centers could be closed. “There are no more PCR tests done, nor more cases detected, due to the lack of nurses.
It is not possible to correctly track positive Covid cases, both those detected by the center itself and those detected in hospitals due to a shortage of staff, and many Non-Covid patients, many of them with chronic pathologies, see how their Demands are postponed due to the lack of health professionals to be able to carry them out,” they explain from the Madrid Nursing Union. Likewise, they emphasize that the nursing, specialist nursing and primary care physiotherapist workforce “is not only scarce, but is the most precarious” of the entire national health system. "All the Communities have more nurses per , inhabitants than Madrid, health spending per inhabitant is also one of the lowest and salaries are well below the national average despite the fact that the regional government says that the region is the driving force of Spain and the cost of living is one of the highest,” they say.