The state-of-the-art equipment of the radiology and hemodynamics services of the new University Hospital of Melilla is now fully installed.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, who has visited the health infrastructure to know first-hand the progress of the equipment phase for the start-up of the hospital, has made clear that “we are both with general furniture and technological, computer, and high-technology hospital equipment, that is, all the equipment necessary to be able to put into operation this important infrastructure as soon as possible”.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has explained that the new infrastructure will have a complete and avant-garde service throughout the country of radiology, with a state-of-the-art and totally pioneering MRI equipment that adapts to the person - and not the other way round - and that it will have 3 Teslas - compared to 1.5 Teslas that conventional devices have - with which “we will obtain results with a higher quality, in fewer times and also will allow us more advanced studies”.
“We are going to have an MRI device, which is fundamental, since now we are not going to have to go to other hospitals or other entities to be able to do this type of testing,” said the head of the Government Delegation, which has also announced the increase of one to four doctors to provide this service.
With regard to hemodynamics, Moh has indicated that it is also a state-of-the-art device “that will allow us to carry out cardiac catheterizations, for which, until now, it was necessary to travel to hospitals on the peninsula to be able to carry them out, so it is another important advance for citizens”.
Da Vinci Surgical System
In her speech to the media, Sabrina Moh specifically referred to the Da Vinci Surgical System, a device that involves a budgetary allocation of more than two million euros and that will also mean that the new Hospital is at the forefront of the country in equipment.
“It is an apparatus that will allow less invasive surgery and therefore beneficial for the patient because it will require less recovery time as well,” he explained.
Therefore, the Delegate wanted to emphasize that the new Hospital will have an infrastructure “at the forefront of health care throughout the country, which will also be a call for professionals to come and provide services to this city”, but, above all, she stressed, “an infrastructure designed for all citizens of Melilla, so that we can count on the health that we all deserve”.
Moh thanked the efforts of the government of Pedro Sánchez and “all the people who have worked tirelessly so that as soon as possible we can count on this essential health infrastructure for Melilla”.
The Delegate, accompanied by heads of the Provincial Directorate of Ingesa, representatives of Tragsa and media professionals, has toured different areas that are already fully completed such as sterilization, laundry, hospitalization…
Serious and constant work
Asked by the media, the Delegate referred to the meeting of the Minister of Health, Mónica García, with the Councilor for Public Health of the City, Randa Mohamed, and the subsequent statements made by the leader of the Melillense PP.
“I think it is good that they have met, but I think it is a recklessness that the Counselor is able to put into the Minister’s mouth things that the Minister has not said,” she acknowledged.
For this reason, he has asked for caution and urged him to make the statements he considers “and put them in his mouth and not in the mouth of any of the representatives of the Government of Spain, that we take health very seriously”.
Moh has made it clear that talks with the Ministry of Health, as with the other ministries, are ongoing. “Behind all this there is a lot of work, a lot of effort and many communications that, although they do not come to light, exist and there is, above all, an awareness on the part of the Government of Spain that we want to do a serious job so that, not only health, but education, employment and all the areas that depend on the Government of Spain, are at the forefront here in the city,” he said.
The Delegate has highlighted the contradiction that supposes that PP officials say that they are worried about Health now that they do not direct this area - given that it is the competence of the Government of Spain - since, when the people are in the Government “the only thing they do is dismantle it”.
More professionals
In another order of things, and asked by health professionals, Moh has pointed out that one of the priorities of the Government of the Nation is the hiring of more doctors. “We are working on this road map to provide not only the equipment, but also the human resources necessary for the implementation of this infrastructure,” he said.
“It would not make any sense to open a hospital of this nature in which we did not have professionals to be able to provide services,” he added and recalled that, during the visit to our city of Carolina Darias, when she was the head of the Ministry of Health, the question of the necessary personnel for the new Hospital was specifically addressed.
With regard to the protest of the College of Doctors of Melilla, Moh pointed out that, the arrival of Mónica García at the head of the Ministry of Health has not meant a change regarding this issue, given that both the current Minister and her predecessors “are at the service of the citizens, who actively listen to what is proposed and, as far as possible, put solutions”.
“Both this Minister, and all her team, and all the Ministers that are part of the Government of Spain are willing to listen to the requests and proposals to, as far as possible, among all and with consensus, reach the best solution,” she said.