The head of Anesthesia at the Salamanca Hospital resigns after complaints from dozens of anesthetists about dangerous practices for patients

Efe Salamanca

Salamanca

Updated Thursday, February 8, 2024-11:34

The until now head of the Anesthesia and Resuscitation Service of the Salamanca Hospital,

Emilia Guash

, has resigned from her position after several dozen anesthetists on her team made public a harsh document against her management.

On Wednesday night, Guash made his position available to the Hospital management and his responsibilities will be temporarily assumed, until the position is called, by his service colleague

Domingo Bustos

, as sources from the Salamanca Care Complex have informed EFE.

The Salamanca Hospital defended this Wednesday the normality in the care of surgical patients after a document was made public in which several dozen anesthetists harshly criticized Guash's management, for which they requested his dismissal for alleged irregularities and dangerous practices for the patients. .

The unusual statement from the Hospital did not make direct reference to this document but was published in response to its disclosure on social networks, as sources from the center have explained to EFE.

"The situation of the

Surgical Block

is developing within the usual channels. Health care focuses on guaranteeing the best health care and always within safety standards for patients," the note indicates.

The anesthetists who prepared the document requested the immediate dismissal of Guash, and submitted that request to the Hospital management, in a context in which a possible strike was being considered if their requests were not met.

The situation of this service is one of the pressing issues that the new manager of the Salamanca Hospital, the Burgos doctor

Carmen Rodríguez Pajares

, must address, who assumed her new responsibility at the end of January after the dismissal of

Luis Ángel González Fernández

.

"The center's management has started working meetings with the Anesthesiology and Resuscitation service to listen to and analyze the needs of professionals, keeping the patient as the center of a health system in which quality care is a priority," reported the Wednesday the Hospital in its statement.

And he added: "Surgical programming is being done regularly, as well as the assignment of anesthesiologists in the different operating rooms, the performance of pre-anesthesia consultations and MIR training."