About 300 elderly people live in hospitals in the Canary Islands, waiting for a social health position, according to data provided to Cadena SER by the Ministry of Health.
– Miguel Ángel Ponce. / CDU – SER CHAIN
There are a total of 282 patients pending administrative discharge who reside in Canarian hospitals without their health situation requiring it, waiting for a place in one of the social health residences: 165 in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and 117 in Las Palms
In the health gathering on Thursdays in the Hoy Por Hoy El Drago program, the pulmonologist and head of the Hospitalization at Home Unit of the Hospital de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín, Miguel Ángel Ponce, warned about this situation that is added to that of the conditions in which those who already have a place live, reflected in the latest report from the Diputación del Común.
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There are 282 users who occupy a hospital space without a real need for urgent medical attention and who increase the hospital pressure of some centers already overwhelmed, both due to the lack of technical and human resources and the added pressure that the Covid19 pandemic supposes.
The reasons must be found in the deficit of social and health places but also in the lack of effective coordination between Health and Social Affairs, as explained in the SER José Manuel Baltar, former Minister of Health of the Canary Islands Government, which leads to situations such as that hospital managers do not know in real time what social health resources have available places, a fundamental fact to refer those patients who no longer need to be hospitalized but who require social or social health care that has nothing to do with that provided by a hospital.
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For Dr. Hani Mhaidli, president of the Ibero-Latin American Column Society and health adviser to the G-20, “this problem cannot be covered up” nor can one try to deny the obvious in relation to the care of our elderly, but rather It is an issue on which “the government and the opposition must agree” to urgently seek a solution.
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