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By this measure the Hospital Rafael Méndez receive less than 24,000 queries, avoiding travel to citizens throughout the County who performed the test every month.

The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, the Health Councillor of the Municipality of Lorca, Antonia Lopez, and the Manager Health Area III (which includes the town of Lorca), José Luis Albarracín, announced this morning that the oral anticoagulation test, known as Sintron, will be decentralized from the Hospital Rafael Méndez to all health centers and clinics peripheral Shire.

Albarracín explained that this bill is a breakthrough in bringing health to users, as patients of this service will no longer have to travel to hospital, where some 24,000 had been making annual visits.

The manager has stressed in particular that will prevent the transfer by ambulance of 120 drug dependent patients, because nurses will travel to your home.

Parallel to this decentralization, there will be a great progress in the analysis system, as no longer needed venepuncture but simply made a small finger prick to draw a drop in blood with a portable coagulometers.

Jodar said "this is a pioneering activity that many neighbors had sued us, so we must thank the Ministry of Health, and particularly to management of the health area, the great effort that will do for of patients and their families. "

To carry out this important step, we have trained more than 100 primary care nurses.

These professionals will be in touch, thanks to a computer program with the hematology department of the hospital to find the prescription medication they should have and the new appointment to go to get tested.

This data is transferred from the hospital to the clinic or office via computer so that the user has.

Such treatment prevents a lot of stroke (about 25 per thousand patients treated and 12 fatal).

Moreover, forecasts indicate an annual increase between 15 and 20% of people who require this treatment.

The City Council of Health has recommended that all service users requesting information on the schedule where they can be tested in your office or health center, and will vary with the different centers.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca