Users can receive care at the new facility from 15:00 am next Monday, May 2, 2016
The Ministry of Health, through Murciano Health Service (SMS), improves emergency assistance to receive citizens of the municipality of Lorca with the opening of the new Emergency Department of Primary Care (SUAP), which will be located at the Center Health-Sutullena Lorca.
From the Emergency Management and Emergency 061, dependent on SMS, proceed to the transfer of SUAP San Diego Lorca Sutullena the morning of next Monday, May 2.
The new SUAP will be ready to provide care to all citizens who go to its facilities from 15:00 pm on Monday, keeping your schedule and regular provision, since the morning, from 8:00 to 15:00 , warnings are treated in public and address via.
The general director of Healthcare of SMS, Mercedes Martínez-Novillo said at a news conference with the director of the Emergency Management and Health Emergencies 061 of the region, Francisco Celdrán, and the manager of the Health Area III-Lorca, Catalina Lorenzo, this decision that is given "a boost to health care."
Martínez-Novillo said that "from now on, thanks to the transfer, patients will be provided with an observation room care or means to see the evolution of the patient, something that so far lacked."
Also among the new features is noteworthy that passed two medical consultations to three, which will feature a catheterization laboratory in which they can serve three patients simultaneously respecting their privacy, and space for the room cures, which will also accommodate two people.
The Director General stressed that "in this way the SUAP of Lorca to other municipalities in the region so that all citizens have the same opportunities, with health care based on quality and continuous improvement equates".
This is the first time, as noted by Martínez-Novillo, the SUAP be housed in its own space, designed for this purpose which will enable practitioners to have a more functional space, "reversing directly in the care offered to Lorca neighbors ".
Office hours for outside emergencies in Lorca Sutullena will, as so far, Monday to Saturday from 15:00 pm to 8:00 am the following day;
and Sundays and holidays 24 hours continuously.
Improvements also for professionals
With the move, the nearly 40 professionals SUAP have better working conditions to continue to provide the service of the hospital emergency because the previous facilities, SUAP Health Center of San Diego, were old, they lacked ventilation and natural lighting .
In the spaces freed after the transfer provides for the realization of works of adaptation and reform, while the healthcare needs of the management of the area of ​​Lorca and Emergency Management and Health emergencies 061 of the Region of Murcia are analyzed, with to give them the best possible use.
volume care
The Emergency Department of Primary Care (SUAP) San Diego Lorca attended last year 44,786 medical consultations, 29,654 nurses and 4,296 notices of home health and nursing 3.503.
Health services Health Area III-Lorca serve a population of 172,000 inhabitants of the municipalities of Eagles, Lorca, Puerto Lumbreras, Aledo and Totana.
Specifically, the town of Lorca has a UME, an Emergency Department of Primary Care, four health centers and 20 offices, being the referral hospital Rafael Mendez.
Source: CARM