Health promoting plan to work in the afternoons and weekends

Appointments with afternoon operating rooms to reduce waiting lists. The Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs of the Andalusian government has intensified its efforts Continuity of care In public hospitals in the community, including those in Almería.

In this province, the Andalusian Health Service includes the Torrecardenas, Poniente, La Enmaculada and El Toyo hospitals, which until last June had just over 90,000 patients are on the surgical waiting listThis is according to official data known very recently.

In the face of criticism from trade union organizations and opposition parties such as the Socialist Workers Party, the sector advisor himselfcatalina garcia, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, juanma moreno, They announced a kind of shock plan to remove from the waiting lists those whose surgical procedures ended in time, that is, more than a year.

Specifically, of these more than 90,000 patients, about 3,310 are in this last department. Torrecardenas University Hospital; Nearly 2000 in the West; Nearly 700 in Immaculate, very clean, very organized (Huércal-Overa) and 185 inches Toyo. Between them they total about 6,200 users.

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In the recent discussion on the state of the community, Juanma Moreno provided more details about this shock plan, with exceptional activity in public hospitals in the afternoons, weekends and holidays. “With this system,” the president explained, “which In 2024 we will allocate 138 million euros, healthcare activity from January to September grew by 15 percent compared to the same period in 2018. Between now and the end of the year, we will make an effort to perform 9,000 surgeries and hope to reduce the surgical waiting list by more than 17 surgeries. percent.” .

“We thank our professionals for their commitment and effort. We depend on them to extend their working hours voluntarily in a specific and paid manner., thus enhancing care activity in the morning, afternoon and night, in addition to weekends. “Significantly increasing outpatient surgeries and improving resources so that the hospital’s activity is one hundred percent of its potential,” the Council’s Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs recently highlighted after the appearance of its owner, Catalina García.

SAS Directorate

At the head of the apparatus is specifically a man from Almeria, Seville, the General Director of the Andalusian Health Authority (SAS). Diego Vargas.

SAS noted that between January and September this year, more than 1.8 million hours of continuity of care were measured in afternoon consultations, surgeries and diagnostic tests, meaning by December 2023 nearly 2.5 million hours. This represents an increase of 8.69% from 2022 and 40% more compared to 2018. Furthermore, so far this year the same hours have been implemented as in all of 2018.

To implement these 1.8 million hours, the Andalusian Health Service allocated a total of 101 million euros between January and September of this year, which means 40% more at the end of the year than in 2018, when they devoted themselves to this purpose. end 77 million euros.

This increase in healthcare activity has translated into a 15% increase in surgical indications, a 17% increase in outpatient consultations, and a 2% increase in diagnostic tests compared to 2018, the last year of socialist administration.