This Monday, June 2, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, accompanied by the Minister of Health, Mónica García, will travel to our city for the inauguration of the new University Hospital of Melilla (HUME).
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, confirmed it this noon in statements to the media and recalled that Sánchez committed to come to Melilla to the inauguration of this important health infrastructure.
“The President is very eager to be and I believe, as a hospital that depends on the Government of Spain, it is important news that a President of the Government, for the third time as President, visits and comes to our city,” he stressed.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has highlighted that the new Hospital comes to improve the quality of care and health of all Melilla citizens, but also that it will mean the creation of jobs, both direct and indirect and, therefore, “is an economic injection also for the city of Melilla”.
More than 1,100 professionals and 40 services
The head of the Government Delegation was pleased that the HUME has been operating since Monday. “We have already started the operation of the hospital with the first services and consultations. This Monday we gave that starting signal, and we were able to see patients in different specialties, as well as in the rehabilitation service, which already serves all the users who needed it,” he explained.
In addition, it has reported that new services have continued to be incorporated into this operation. “Today we are starting Radiology and we are also starting Laboratory”, he said, while stressing the importance of starting the operation of this infrastructure and of incorporating different services until the whole hospital works.
As Moh has stressed, “we are talking about an infrastructure that will house more than 1,100 professionals and 40 services with state-of-the-art technology, so we need not only this planning of transfers, but also a preliminary phase of staff training”.
As he pointed out, HUME has state-of-the-art equipment and resources in the market, which “is beneficial for citizens, but it is no less true that it also requires a qualification and training and in that our professionals have also been trained and it is important to put it in value”.
Moh has advanced that next week new consultations and different services will be opened until reaching the totality of these more than 40 services that are going to be given in the new hospital.
“Our commitment and our objective will be to continue working in the same way to continue putting into operation each and every one of the services and that the hospital can be fully operational in about six or eight months,” he said.
This gradual opening, the Delegate has clarified, which occurs not only in the HUME, but is the normal thing. “Everyone who has some knowledge knows that any hospital, not only in Spain, but in the world, requires planning and a phased opening,” he said.
As he said, there are new services, new machinery and many professionals and “for patients to receive the best care, it has to be done in this way,” he said.
“The opening of the University Hospital of Melilla is a reason for collective pride, designed by and for Melilla. This is an essential infrastructure that will decisively improve the quality of care in the city”, he has made clear, assuring that the Government of Spain will continue to work to complete its entry into operation in an orderly and efficient manner.