It will be in the first half of 2024 when the city can see the completion of the first of the two new buildings, which among other services, will house the day hospitals, which will be built in the space left free by the old CAS as part of the functional plan to reform the General Hospital that is being undertaken by the regional government in the city. This is how the provincial Health delegate in Albacete, Juani García Vitoria, advanced it after taking office on September 22. Of course, then you will have to equip yourself as a preliminary step so that you can get going.
García Vitoria assured that “whoever passes by the Hospital can see day by day how a work as important as this one is evolving, now we can see the dimension of the new hospital and the remodeling of the old one, in the end we are going to have a complex that “It will make us forget about the old health infrastructure.”
In this sense, the provincial Health delegate was satisfied with the budget assigned in health matters to the province of Albacete, within the draft budget of the Board for 2024. Specifically, Juani García mentioned the budget chapter, with almost 40 million for fiscal year 2024, for the comprehensive renovation and expansion works of the Hospital, and highlighted that “at no time will we see the current building of the General Hospital empty, because things will be moved and other areas will be closed for renovation, perhaps this part “It will be the most complicated to undertake while the care activity of the center continues.”
García Vitoria detailed some of the challenges and projects that the Ministry of Health wants to launch, which in terms of Public Health involve giving a boost to the promotion of health and the prevention of disease, framed within the actions it contemplates. of the Horizon 20/25 Health Plan.
In fact, prevention also involves emphasizing the importance of vaccination to prevent certain diseases such as flu, Covid, herpes zoster or respiratory syncytial virus (the main cause of bronchiolitis in children under one year old).
Specifically, the Health delegate highlighted the commitment that has been made by the Board to immunize young children against the respiratory syncytial virus “which causes 80% of hospital admissions for bronchiolitis in children under six months of age.” . Since last October 1, vaccination against this virus has already begun in health centers for children under six months of age, girls and boys under one year of age who were born prematurely, and children under 24 months of age with risk conditions.
In the recapture carried out in the province of Albacete of children who turned six months since last October 1, 1,326 have already been included to be inoculated, and to that figure we would have to add around 1,300 new births of babies who are expected to be vaccinated against bronchiolitis from October 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024.
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2023-11-07 04:00:00
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