9621 Agnes Crossing, Lake Suzanneview, New Mexico Island 84604-9295.
The Santander University Hospital (Hus), the largest medical entity in the northeast in the country, which serves patients from five departments – including Los Santonderes, Bolívar, Cesar, Antioquia,
The Santander University Hospital (Hus), the largest medical entity in the northeast in the country, which serves patients from five departments – including Los Santonderes, Bolívar, Cesar, Antioquia, among others– announced that your sEmergency Ede is collapsed And, therefore, he issued an alert to the health authorities.
Through a statement, he informed that he records a 150 % overexuctionsince it currently has 116 beds and It is attending 175 patients. That is, some could be waiting to be treated in chairs or even on the floor.
Hus emergencies Photo:Private archive
The institution called on the community so that, andn cases of mild or moderate emergency, Go to other care centers.
This measure seeks to decongest The service in the Hus and allow better attention to more critical patients.
The situation in Santander As for the health service, it is not simple, in the Chicamocha Clinic The closure of neonatal care This decision already joined more medical entities due to problems in financial support because of the debts of the EPS to medical entities.
Edwin Prada, Secretary of Health of Santander, spoke over time, who shared a worrying radiography of the health landscape in the department: he revealed that to date there is a debt of more than one billion pesos between public and private entities.
Even two hospitals of first level located in Zapatoca and San Vicente de Chucurí, Recently inaugurated, they already present debts that, in the coming months, could affect the effective provision of users service.
Surgery Photo:Istock
Something positive in the midst of this panorama is that, andn La Foscal, a center located in Floridablancaattention is maintained in the neonatal part, but also announced that they were at the limit because that room was closed in other hospitals.
“On average we attended 250 monthly births to receive between 300 and 350 births. We increase infrastructure, personal and technology, «says the institution.
Melissa Múnera Zambrano
El Tiempo-Bucaramanga correspondent
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