The Pediatric Oncohematology Unit of the University Hospital of Toledo, dependent on the Castilla-La Mancha Health Service, “has undoubtedly improved the quality of care for pediatric oncology patients, since it has gone from having double rooms at the Hospital Virgen de Health to arrange all its beds in individual rooms in the new health center”.
This has been assured in the Regional Courts by the Minister of Health, Jesús Fernández Sanz, highlighting that, also, the Pediatrics area, where this specific hospitalization unit for oncological children is located, has a leisure area for hospitalized pediatric patients in addition to the Pediatric Classroom.
Regarding consultations, the Minister of Health explained that the Pediatrics service, directed by Dr. Antonio Martínez Gimeno, has a total of twelve consultation rooms on the first floor of Building B of the University Hospital of Toledo, both general Pediatrics such as specific consultations of Pneumology, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Neonatology, Neurology, Cardiology and Hemato-oncology that have three.
Likewise, in the same building where all the day hospitals are located, both medical and oncological, the Pediatric Day Hospital is located, which supports all pediatric specialties, with a majority activity of Hemato-oncology.
The person in charge of the health policies of Castilla-La Mancha wanted to emphasize that the Pediatric Oncohematology Unit is conveniently equipped with medical staff and Nursing professionals, whose hiring is always done by bag.
At this time, the Toledo University Hospital Complex has a Tissue and Tumor Commission, which gives support and regulatory coverage to specific tumor committees, as is the case of pediatrics.
Fernández Sanz has also advanced that a normative regulation is also in draft that can provide coverage for a Regional Committee for Pediatric Tumors, in which the ICU Pediatric Specialties, Neurology, Endocrinology, Palliative, Nephrology, Cardiology, Digestive and Nutrition and also non-pediatric specialties such as Oncology, Hematology, General Surgery, Traumatology, Urology, Otorhinolaryngology, Maxillofacial Surgery, Gastroenterology, Ophthalmology, Interventional Radiology, and Primary Care. In this case, both from Albacete and Toledo.
Collaboration with patient organizations and their families in all hospital resources in the region can be valued as positive, and especially with organizations such as AFANION, with whom they work hand in hand in hospital centers where children’s oncology is treated and also with Aladdin.
From the NETWORK of Experts and Professionals of Pediatric Oncohaematology they are currently working “quite well with Toledo, and are currently finalizing several protocols, including care in Emergency Services, referral between health centers in the Region and attention to adolescents” , has assured.
Regarding this last issue, there is a proposal under evaluation for the creation of an Adolescent Unit where Paediatrics, Oncology and Adult Hematology would work together.
All of this, Fernández Sanz highlighted, “hand in hand with professionals, with their processes, with the complexity of highly specialized care activity, taking into account the networking of resources in the region”.
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