The Minister Boi Ruiz admitted that these services are "saturated" by the remarkable number of visits received
Health | 10/02/2012 - 17:07 pm
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Barcelona. (EP). - The Department of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya has strengthened emergency medical resources necessary to turndown inoperative so far to address the increased demand for services caused by the spread of flu epidemic , noted the Minister of Health, Boi Ruiz.
In attention to the media after visiting the building Eleven of Catalunya, Ruiz admitted that emergency services are "saturated" by the significant number of visitors who come to the emergency rooms for primary care (CUAP) and hospitals.
The minister has praised the "flexibility" of the health system for the first time this year has strengthened the human resources services and technical proactively through the Comprehensive Emergency Plan of Catalonia (PIUC), which has enabled all ways and through a monitoring system helps to strengthen units and sites that require it.
At the launch of the campaign of influenza vaccination, the Department of Health Service explained that he had a party of 30 million euros to these potential reinforcements.
In any case, said that "the system is operating normally, and where it has had to strengthen services for the claim has been made," he added.
Ruiz admitted that the rate of infection by influenza, of 207 cases per 100,000 population in the adult population and 420 cases per 100,000 in children, is "high", but has guaranteed the high resolution of the primary care (CAP), the CUAP emergency and hospital, despite the existence of some longer waiting times in some cases.
He recalled the general recommendation to cold to take common sense preventive measures such as shelter and sent out into the street if necessary, among others.
Ruiz noted that the forecast is that the flu lasts "a few more days, but the virulence features will not be a long flu, unless the virus mutates, which in principle does not have to happen."
During the visit to the headquarters of the Eleven, the Minister has stressed the need to display the work carried out this entity at the site considered the largest in the world dedicated to the normalization of the blind and visually impaired.
The facilities of 44,000 square meters, have a floor of Daily Life, Education Resource Center, a library and a sports center.
In the Daily Life Floor, rehabilitation technicians show how to cook, iron and sew through, for example, specific needle top opening that allows a blind thread, which has aroused the curiosity of the councilor.
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