“Santana is safe about health” and “she is safe about helping.” The guarantee is from the Regional Secretary of Health and Civil Protection, Pedro Ramos, who was in Santana today.
An opportunity to “transfer security guarantees to the residents”, after the recent criticism by the mayor and the protest vote approved yesterday, by a majority, in the municipal council, against not reopening the emergency room of the health center in Santana during the overnight period.
Pedro Ramos went to Santana on Saturday to try to reassure residents, noting that for 46 years the regional government has had an attitude of “building response models that respond to the conditions of its citizens.” And in the case of an emergency in the city’s health center located on the northern coast of Madeira, he said, “We have already gone through a period in which emergency cases were closed at night, and then we increased the operating period until ten in the evening,” to ensure that assistance is currently organized in order to ensure a rapid response, as well as For residents of Santana. To this end, he recalls, Madeira is covered by “three health centers that make up a safety triangle: São Vicente, Machico and Calheta. We have four other health centers that open between 8 am and 10 pm and respond to the population in the same way. At night the response is integrated, ie it must Provide assistance in less than 60 minutes. This is what the international rules say, this is what the relief response construction model says, and in the territory, less than 60 minutes any point on the island that is far from the most differentiated unit, in this case, Dr. Nélio Mendonça “, explained.
On the other hand, he asserts that “the system of transportation of patients in a certain degree of danger is ensured by the firefighters in an isolated manner, or, if this degree is more obvious, by the firefighters in addition to the EMIR”. EMIR who, in addition to having two vehicles capable of responding simultaneously, “also travels to meet firefighters, to meet health centers”, reaffirming that “the transfer of patients has been carried out in a safe manner for several years”.
Arguments to assert that “based on the resources we have, we cannot allocate resources to work at night, and then, in the following days, not having doctors and nurses for consultations that are due, and therefore, trying to solve a problem that does not exist, because we do not have patients, we create An additional problem,” he asserts. However, he acknowledges that this “does not invalidate that this construction of the rescue and assistance model at the primary care level does not change over time,” that is, it does not rule out the possibility of Santana’s emergency room reopening 24 hours a day, but “Without compromising what the consultations are,” he points out.
Pedro Ramos also notes that Santana “turns out to be one of the health centers benefiting from the More Hospitals in the Community programme,” because “the goal is to keep the assistance as it should be: with 100% safety and 100% coverage in primary care conditions.”
He took the opportunity to announce that, starting in March, Santana “will have another doctor,” thus also seeking to reinforce the conviction that the emergency room being closed at night “is not a case of insecurity.” And not only because of the quality of assistance, it is any of the firefighters who ensure that they are ready to act in all situations, because the ambulances are also equipped (4 bags) to respond accordingly.
The PSD opposition, in the Municipal Assembly of Santana, abstained
Orlando Drummond, Feb 24, 2023 – 12:50
