The director of the Eva Perón Hospital, Gerardo Murga, commented that today they are celebrating the 100 general surgeries that are carried out jointly with the Burruyacú hospital. He indicated that Dr. Javier Flores, who is the Burruyacú surgeon, has been working at the Eva Perón since February one day a week, on Fridays, bringing surgical patients from his town to do the operations.
“The modality consists of identifying patients who need to perform surgery, do the pre-surgery at the Burruyacú hospital, they are scheduled on Fridays, which is the day Dr. Flores comes to do the surgery at the Eva Perón along with the head of the effector’s operating room. Generally there are two to three surgeries that are done in the afternoon,” explained the director, while saying that after the operation the patient is observed for a couple of hours and then is transferred back to Burruyacú.
Murga said that this modality of work was an initiative of the minister, Dr. Luis Medina Ruiz, and Dr. Dive Mohamed, of Health Management, who were the ones who told them how to articulate the assistance so that it is beneficial to the community: “ Being able to have the possibility of performing minimally invasive surgery in the hospital that has everything necessary to do it and that is practically outpatient is a great advance for the community.”
The team is made up of the head of the operating room, Dr. David Zelarayán, the operating room coordinator, Roxana Zelaya, and Dr. Javier Flores, from the Burruyacú Hospital.
The head of the Department of Surgery at the Burruyacú Hospital, Dr. Javier Flores, said that this project arose some time ago with the help of Governor Osvaldo Jaldo and the Minister of Health, Dr. Luis Medina Ruiz: “In less than a week we started “The directors of the Eva Perón hospital will work on a fairly ambitious initiative because we are a small effector where we have a very large geographical area.”
On the occasion, the professional stated that they are 60 kilometers from the capital and that the people who consult the hospital are from nearby towns. “We provide laparoscopic surgeries that have nothing to envy to the private part of the capital’s sanatoriums. We have a great human resource with two surgeons and the anesthetist, in addition to the cleaning staff who prepares the room, the doctor on duty who receives the patient, the nurses, the 107 drivers who transport the patients from Burruyacú to the hospital. Eva Perón hospital plus the operating room team,” he said.
For his part, Juan Esteban Gordillo, deputy technical director of the Eva Perón Hospital, explained that this modality began due to a Health Management initiative, because there were many patients on the waiting list, so it began to be implemented due to a political decision by the minister. these evening surgeries: “It led us to quite complex logistics at the beginning that now work in a very light way and today we celebrate the 100 surgeries that we were able to provide to this community.”
Gordillo highlighted that they have a new laparoscopy box that they were given. “This is management of the entire work team, since we joined we had three operating rooms and we had been working with only one and the other on call, and now we increased production by a thousand percent by doing surgeries,” he remarked.
