Workers Commissions in l’Alacantí i les Marines He trusts that the province’s hospitals will begin to consider how to recover the “normalization” of their healthcare activities this week, once it seems that the decrease in healthcare pressure by COVID-19 patients is confirmed. This is stated by the heads of the union sections of the departments of Alicante-General Hospital, San Juan and Marina Baixa.
They hope to address it at the regular meetings they hold with the staff boards, the preventive medicine service, unions and management, although it is like “a theory, a possibility”, they point out. In addition, as indicated, the directorates have begun to request the different departments the lists of the interventions that were “frozen” before the pandemic was declared.
And it is that days ago these health centers have “spare” capacity to attend to the infected in the plant and in the ICU, reason why the union leaders of the three centers do not see it unreasonable that the field hospital finally intended for COVID patients (mild or moderate) if there is a reputation for cases now that nonessential activities have been resumed or perhaps “in a while, when children are allowed to leave.”
Paco Tevar, Head of Commissions at the Alicante General Hospital, highlights that today “higher are given that income is requested” by coronavirus and that in the center there is capacity to attend to new infected. In addition, patients are kept in individual rooms, so capacity can be “doubled.” Tevar highlights that the day they suffered the most pressure from COVID, this hospital center had 40 free beds and 5 rooms still available for ICU.
The same situation occurs in the Hospital de San Juan in which the north third floor, destined to psychiatric patients and capacity for about twenty people, it was evicted (these patients were referred to the Doctor Esquerdo center) due to the possibility that this space was occupied by COVID patients, but this has not happened. Also they are going to meet this week to raise a possible “de-escalation” when it seems that the situation “is normalized”.
And at the Marina Baixa Hospital, in La Vila Joiosa, this Monday there are 15 COVID patients admitted to the ward and 8 to the ICU, as specified by union sources, which highlight that if this line is followed next week, it will be decided how the operations will be recovered.
It helps this situation of “relief care” of hospitals, says Francisco Tevar, who has started the Medical Hospital of the residential complex of San Juan, who this week has 17 people admitted and also remembers that a Doctor Esquerdo plant (from the Alicante Provincial Council) also has the capacity to enter these patients.
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