Hospital La Princesa de Madrid has lost almost 300,000 euros in medicines due to an electrical failure that occurred at the end of April and spoiled drugs after disconnecting one of the refrigerators of the center's Pharmacy service two days ago, sources from the Press confirmed to Europa Press Ministry of Health.
Given this, the deputy of the PSOE in the Assembly of Madrid José Manuel Freire has advanced that they will request the report on the causes of what happened and if appropriate, the appearance of the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruíz Escudero, in the Regional Chamber to explain what happened
According to El Confidencial and they have told Europa Press sources of Health, the ruling occurred on May 1 when it was detected that the Pharmacy Service refrigerator had been disconnected since April 29, reaching a temperature of 16 degrees centigrade
"During those 48 hours there were no orders for which no one accessed the refrigerator and could not be detected," said the same sources, who have indicated that after solving the problem and putting it into operation , to ensure the safety and effectiveness of The medication was quarantined , the laboratories were contacted to find out if, in the temperature conditions reached, the medications maintained their stability.
After that, drugs that had no stability were destroyed, giving their corresponding discharge. The total cost of discarded drugs is 297,818.83 euros.
The investigation carried out by the center has determined that the incident was due to a power failure , probably due to an overload of the system, but whose ultimate origin is unknown.
In addition, the automatic temperature control system also did not work properly. "No incident has been re-recorded in this refrigerator. As a precaution, along with the automatic control, the regular visual control of the installation has been established in each shift, they have added from Sanidad.
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For its part, José Manuel Freire has estimated the losses at 400,000 euros, as internal sources have transferred from the hospital. "It seems that this has had an impact on hiring fewer nurses for this summer, with the consequent closing of beds," he reproached.
For this reason, the regional deputy has advanced that he will ask Health for a report explaining the causes of what happened and, if appropriate, the appearance of the counselor in this matter.
"In this type of facilities there must be an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), which immediately jumps in these types of cases and an alarm, " he said. In addition, he has indicated that internal sources maintain that a low temperature alarm sounded, but nobody took it.
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