- Orihuela Costa SAMU continues to operate illegally with out a physician
Whereas the model new Orihuela Costa Emergency Centre, a constructing of 4,700 sq. metres, continues to solely partially function because it waits for providers to be added, amenities within the SAMU base a bit of over a kilometre away on the N-332 Cabo Roig roundabout, are in a deplorable situation.
Employees denounce the truth that they’ve been with out air-con for 3 weeks: “It’s inhumane,” they are saying.
On this warmth wave, they’re working in temperatures of greater than 30 levels. Regardless of the quite a few complaints which have been despatched to the Ministry of Well being, they nonetheless await a response, so throughout the 12 hours of service they supply each day they carry in followers from house.
Employees additionally confirmed that “this 12 months they’ve not often had the providers of a health care provider” a scenario that violates the legislation, and although the laws require that such a medical transport has a health care provider with it always.
Lately the Nursing Union, Satse, warned that the Ministry of Well being is failing to adjust to well being laws each time it sends out a SAMU ambulance with out a physician. Satse remembers that, in line with the well being laws revealed by the Ministry itself, SAMU ambulances should have a health care provider, nurse and a paramedic, they have to be labelled as such and the employees should put on badges that determine them.
Simply final Saturday the household of a 56-year-old man who died of a coronary heart assault in Alicante, after being handled by a SAMU with out a physician, has denounced the case to the courts.
At present the variety of SAMU ambulances that need to attend each day calls with out a physician continues to extend to the purpose when there are days, in line with staff and unions, the place between 30% and 40% of the ambulances of the province would not have a health care provider on board .
Neighborhood organisations on the coast have been calling for a greater service for a while and for SAMU care to be elevated from 12 to 24 hours, particularly throughout the summer time, when the inhabitants triples, as does the extra stress that these arrivals placed on the medical providers.
The Emergency Centre, which for the time being homes the Native Police, Immigration and Civil Guard, was additionally offered to find the SAMU in the summertime season, in addition to Firefighters, Civil Safety and forestry brigades, from the place the authorities may then coordinate actions within the southern a part of Alicante.
Nonetheless, the primary ground of the centre deliberate to accommodate this service “stays unfinished, an empty shell that requires an additional 600,000 euros to be added to the two.2 million euros that has already been spent.”
The previous Councillor for Well being, José Galiano, defined that earlier than leaving the federal government he had made preparations with the Ministry to vary the SAMU service to 24 hours and to switch it to the Emergency Centre. He mentioned {that a} undertaking was introduced in line with the necessities demanded by the Valencian Ministry of Well being, headed by Miguel Mínguez, with the Council proposing an space of about 90 sq. metres with a pharmacy, 4 rooms and a kitchen, which had obtained the approval of the Ministry.
