In an event behind closed doors, regional authorities cut to the tape of inauguration of the awaited emergencia of the Hospital Dr. Raul Leoni de Guaiparo, whose work initiated three long years ago. In a contact televised by VTV and TV Lives, the president of the Republic, Hugo Chavez, Cabinet spoke in the heat of from Caracas on kindness of District Inside, and applauded the opening of the areas.

Mariana To Ramirez
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After three years of delay, finally the new room of emergencia of the Hospital Dr. was inaugurated Raul Leoni de Guaiparo, located in San Felix, this Thursday in afternoon. The great absentees in the activity were the main ones been urgent of these areas, the patients.

In an act in which he was expected the presence of the minister of Health, Carlos Rotondaro, and the governor of the state, Francisco Rangel Go'mez, was in favor present of the holders of the positions, Divis Antunez, vice-minister of Resources for the Health of the Popular Power for the Health, the Secretary General of government, Teodardo Clubs, besides the mayor of Caroní, Jose Ramon Lopez, and the director of the institution, Jose Manuel Valdez.

Valdez assured that the room of cares counts on 28 beds of observation, 10 beds triage, 8 beds of trauma shock, services of radiology and ecography, 2 operating rooms with equipment of end technology, area of aerosolisation, an operating room of smaller surgery, a complete room of plaster and an area of surgery triage and orthopedic surgery.

Vice-minister Antunez limited that the work, realised with an investment of 20 million bolivars, is framed in “a process of I reimpel of the sector health that takes to end the national Executive, “with the aim of making honor to our political humanist and Socialist” and counts on a capacity to take care of 1,200 patients who “will receive a specialized attention and of great quality”.

It expressed that they will extend the calls implemented Hospitable Brigades in more than 50 centers of health of the capital city, to offer to major security to patients, visitors, doctors and workers.

Speaking of needs
In an act behind closed doors, the authorities realised a contact televised with the president of the Republic Cold Hugo Chavez, who was in a Cabinet in Caracas. Through the signals of Venezuelan of Television and the public Lives TV could be present at the act, whereas the regional means had to remain outside, because the access was not allowed them.

During the conversation with national Head of State, the director of the health center requested his support for the construction of a unit of X-ray, “we have the necessity to count on one of these units, because the one that exists within the hospital he is of the Foundation Rotary Cachamay and is private”, also requested to Chávez a unit of Hemodinámia, nonexistent in the zone.

“If thus he begins…”
During the inauguration, an euphoric group of representatives of the communal advice of zones bordering to the health center, and other adept associations to bureaucracy, vitoreaba to the present authorities and before the impatience by the official cut of the tape on two ocassions tried to break in of the enclosure where were the authorities of the Government.

Finally and after the symbolic opening, the groups before mentioned attacked against the presents and entered the force, preventing the work of mass media, attitude that present doctors and nurses repudiaron of forceful way, “that is the same attitude which we are trying to eradicate, those are the situations that appear on a daily basis in the emergencia, if thus we began, this emergencia and everything what they remodelen is not going to last much”, criticized some galens, who retired annoying, after this “little civic demonstration”.

New rules
One of the new features that will find patients and relatives in just inaugurated area, is the prohibition of permanence of the relatives of the patients, “except in gravity situations or by conditions of incapacity which they require the aid of a relative”, it assured Jesus Villalba, director of the welfare center.

It indicated that this measurement must like intention preserve the state of the spaces. In that sense, it made a call to the relatives of the people who will be shut in the different units from that “they collaborate and they make fulfill the norms, because the visits would obstruct the activities of the medical personnel and infirmary”.

“Nowhere of the world it is allowed that the patient is in constant contact with the relatives, much less in patients who are in delicate situations, because this contaminates the area where it is shut in, so this measurement goes indeed directed to that, to contribute whereupon the patient improves much more fast”.

It continues the delay

In spite of to be inaugurated, the new room of special emergencia for trauma patients, surgery and medicine, will not abrirá its doors but until within one week, according to indicated the director of the institution, Jose Manuel Valdez, who is when they have predicted to culminate with the process of disinfection of these places and the induction of workers of the enclosure.

The area to that they will happen more than 50 patients than remains in the old room in conditions of overcrowding, not yet tells on the electrical plant that it will guarantee the continuous provision of light in case of appearing faults in the service.

Sandra Santiago, ordered of the infrastructure of the hospital, commented already “arrived the terminals, that was what lacked - to put into operation the plant, but not yet is in operation”.