Operating room of the Hospital de Santarém will “intervention … – Reuters

             

                     
                 

             

 
                     

The operating room of the Hospital de Santarém will be the target of a “going too far” will force its total closure for 120 days, expected in early 2015, said on Thursday Lusa official source of Regional Administration Health (ARS) from Lisbon and Tagus Valley.

                 

                     In response to questions raised by Lusa following withdrawal of mayors, users and health professionals about the malfunction of this service, the ARS admits “some conditioning” of the Operating Center (BOC), Hospital de Santarém in August “by climatic reasons. “

Several sources told Lusa that the malfunction of the system Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), dating from the construction of the hospital in 1985, generates conditions or excessive dryness (fire hazard) and humidity (with the risk of electrical accidents and infections). This situation, observed since last winter and has worsened this August, has forced the postponement or transfer surgeries.

The ARS ensures that scanned delays “were for a few days” and “are already resolved, or resolution in the case of orthopedics, with the use of operative times assigned by the Hospital Middle Tagus “.
” Just there to register the transfer of a patient with a clinical picture very urgent, and that could have occurred in any other circumstances, “he says.

The ARS-LVT ensures that until July 31″ there were no postponements of surgery beyond the normal “and that the first seven months of the year to be held 382 more interventions than in the same period of 2013, having been a reduction of waiting time in 55 days. However, he admits, “there is actually a technical problem in that BOC is being managed according to the circumstances and will undergo a profound intervention, will involve the complete closure during about 120 days.”

This problem, assures, “not a permanent operation of the BOC obstruction, occurring only in very adverse conditions of excessive moisture and low temperatures, at the same time.”

According to that entity, is ongoing “one intervention project of remodeling, upgrading and modernization of blocks Operative, a structural dimension that guarantees the best level for the next 25 years, “an estimated investment of two million euros he has” secured funding “.

“The difficulty and complexity of the intervention, requiring the maximum weighting and rigor, the result of the nature of the sites, their location within the Hospital and the risk of disruption to other services in that it comes from demolition reconstruction and infrastructure, and also the performance guarantee in the prescribed time and budget without any deviation. “

According to ARS-LVT,” so that the BOC can be closed for 120 days already exists a contingency plan with the creation of temporary conditions which ensure the maximum internal capacity of alternative possible “, allowing the use of the block of Ambulatory Surgery, surgical rooms of ER, Block Parthians and the Ambulatory Surgical.

“In addition to the activity which can not be ensured at the Hospital, will be found among the hospitals in the region, the support that is deemed necessary to meet the needs, it is expected that corresponds to less than 10 % of surgical activity, “he adds.

Situation” unsustainable “
The president of Intermunicipal Community Wetland Tagus, Pedro Ribeiro (PS), the situation of operating room of the Hospital de Santarém is more of the symptoms of this unit is to reach an “unsustainable point.”

Pedro Ribeiro said he did not understand the lack of response from the Ministry of Health made the request dialog for more than a month by regional mayors. Also the mayor of Santarém, Ricardo Gonçalves (PSD), at the meeting of the executive this week, criticized the Minister Paulo Macedo did not respond to his letter two weeks ago, asking for an urgent intervention.

“We understand that there are issues that take time to be resolved, but when it comes to the lives of the people do not accept that there is no answer. surgery If something has to be stopped half way or someone who had to be operated urgently die wonder who is the guilt, “said Pedro Ribeiro. “If guilt here too is the ‘troika’, then they are convicted of negligent homicide,” he added, stressing that a situation like that creeps in Santarém Hospital “has to have consequences and responsible.”