The Pressure suffered by hospital services and primary care due to the high incidence of the coronavirus has forced activate contingency plans. The last ones have come into operation since, this Monday, in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, although the family doctors have assured that they have already been days, for example, with “the cytology agendas closed, the same as with retinographies“, which are stopped. In addition, with these contingency plans they have been nursing check-ups postponed or preventive activities such as monitoring the chronically ill.
And the telephone assistance. A decision that has overloaded, even more if possible, the family doctors who have asked for more support staff and to “free” them from some of the administrative tasks they carry out. As explained Elena Perez, spokesperson for the Association of Primary Care Physicians of the Canary Islands, to date, carry out “more than 400 calls” between the people who have tested positive and their close contacts and that is “unaffordable”. So we “stop doing things” to “get to everything.”
Meanwhile, from the Tenerife Primary Care Management, José Miguel Rodríguez, has indicated that a first step to alleviate the pressure on this service is the implementation of these contingency plans in Tenerife and Gran Canaria, some logical measures. And for this, it has valued the collaboration of professionals, because some, even, they have sent their wish not to take the holidays to try to alleviate the pressure on local clinics.
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