Twenty-six patients have been discharged and another 29 have been transferred from the Hospital del Oriente de Asturias, in Arriondas, to hospitals in Gijón, Avilés, Mieres and Langreo due to the risk of the hospital complex being flooded by the flooding of the Piloña river and the abundant rains that have been falling in the area for hours.
One has been transferred to the Cabueñes Hospital, in Gijón, 11 to the Avilesino of San Agustín, 15 more to the Nalón de Langreo Valley and another two to Álvarez Buylla de Mieres, reports the Ministry of Health, which has also referred to the Fundación del Gijonés de Jove Hospital to the 23 patients receiving hemodialysis at the Arriondas Regional Hospital.
The evacuation of the hospital, for which seventeen ambulances were mobilized, was decided at 2:35 p.m., an hour after the Government raised the Principality’s Flood Plan to level one due to the flooding and overflowing of channels in different parts of the city. region, mainly in the eastern zone.
Three evacuations in 10 years
The Principality Health Service (Sespa) will install an advanced medical post in the vicinity of the Arriondas hospital in the next few hours to attend to the users of the health area, with the support of medical personnel from the health center itself, and if necessary, also will mobilize advanced life support vehicles (mobile ICU).
The Health Service has recommended to the inhabitants of the eastern region who require care that they preferably go to the emergency services of the health centers or call 112.
In recent years, the Francisco Grande Covián Hospital already had to be evacuated in January 2019 for the same reason, as in June 2010.
On this occasion, also as a precaution, 350 people have also been evicted from the “Río Sella” public school and another 225 from the “El Sueve” Secondary Education Institute, including students, teachers and other personnel.
Reinforcement of personnel
In addition, the SEPA Rescue Group has evacuated three people by helicopter -a couple and their 7-year-old son along with a dog- from a house in the council of Piloña that has been surrounded by water on the Lleu straight, in the fina of El Llerón, in the council of Piloñes.
Faced with the rising rivers, the EPA has reinforced both the 112 room personnel and the personnel of the four fire stations located in the eastern part of the region (Llanes, Cangas de Onís, Villaviciosa and Piloña) where, in At this time, around thirty troops, a zone chief and a supervising chief, remain mobilized.
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