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The Palma del Río Hospital, a center attached to the Reina Sofía University Hospital that began its activity at the beginning of last November, goes a step further with the incorporation of new services. This Friday the program of rehabilitation for neurological patientsa particularly vulnerable group -because they are people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), who have suffered a stroke or other neurological pathologies-, who previously traveled to the Reina Sofía Hospital.

This incorporation has motivated the reinforcement of the template with more physiotherapists, auxiliary nursing care technicians (TCAE) and orderlies to care for these patients in the hospital gymnasium facilities.

In addition, this week the realization of the eradiodiagnostic studies (CT and conventional radiology) to the child population, thus avoiding or reducing trips to Córdoba. Until now, these tests were not done here on children.

It will also start working shortly hospital pharmacy consultationwhich will allow the dispensing of hospital medication to the population of the reference area and which until now had to travel to the Reina Sofía Hospital for collection.

Also, in the coming weeks, the Palma del Río Hospital will include in its portfolio of services the consultation of Gynecology (allowing the attention of women throughout the gynecological process) and consultations of Internal Medicine and Cardiology. These last two make it possible to improve the accessibility of health care to patients with complex chronic or heart disease who are usually treated by these specialties.

This hospital in the Vega del Guadalquivir conforms to the model of High Resolution Hospital Since its opening, it offers Ophthalmology, Obstetrics, Mental Health and Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy consultations, as well as Radiodiagnosis and Breast Cancer Screening and Laboratory. In its first two months of operation, mammograms of screening of breast cancer to 1,300 women, to which must be added 20 CT scans, 50 conventional X-rays and 15 orthopantomographies.

As to queries70 pregnant women have been treated in Obstetrics, 200 patients in Ophthalmology, 250 in Rehabilitation and 250 in Mental Health.

next developments

The rest of the specialties that form part of the portfolio of services of the Palma del Río Hospital will gradually become operational (Digestive System, Anesthesia, General Surgery, Dermatology, Pulmonology, Otolaryngology, Traumatology and Urology) as well as the emergencies and multipurpose hospitalization, scheduled for June of this year, once the reform is completed and the equipment is received.

Finally, in a third phase, the activity will begin in the Surgical Block with the performance of interventions in the regime of major outpatient surgery, such as the intervention of cataracts, hernias, hallux valgus or release of carpal tunnel, which will prevent the displacement of the population to the Reina Sofía University Hospital.

Finally, the Palma de Río Hospital has “state-of-the-art equipment, improves accessibility to citizens, speeds up the resolution of health problems and decreases displacements of the reference population, greater than the 41,700 residents of Palma del Río, Hornachuelos, Fuente Palmera (Ochavillo, Cañada del Rabadán and El Villar) and Fuente Carreteros”, they indicate from the Reina Sofía.