As of today, the Community of Madrid will reactivate pavilion 1 of the Isabel Zendal Nursing Hospital, created during the pandemic,

to prevent a collapse in the emergency rooms of its hospital centers due

to the peak of flu and other respiratory diseases with which it has been encountered. the region in recent days and that has caused complaints from professionals in La Paz or the Infanta Sofía.

According to the Government statement, the Ministry of Health will immediately begin to transfer patients to their new location, where the necessary beds will be enabled and where all the hospitals in the region that need it can be referred.

Sources from the department headed by Enrique Ruiz Escudero point out that

emergencies are currently "stable" and that the peak was noted in La Paz last Sunday and Monday.

The coordination of the transfers will be carried out by SUMMA 112 and their destination will be the center of Valdebebas, where they indicate in the Community of Madrid,

there are currently 187 health professionals of different categories working

.

In part, they point out, due to the reinforcement of the winter campaign with 1,300 additional troops, which began in December, and the hiring of 350 pediatricians at the end of November to curb cases of bronchiolitis in minors.

Although, according to the regional government, the situation is stable and normal, emergency professionals point out that there have been collapses in some centers in recent days.

Especially in three, La Paz, the Príncipe de Asturias and the Infanta Sofía

, with patients even having to be accommodated in corridors due to the lack of spaces to care for them.

In fact, last Tuesday, health workers from the Urgencia de la Paz denounced before the duty court that on the previous day there were 117 patients in the center for 83 beds and that they only had 12 nurses, ten nursing technicians and as many orderlies.

"We are experiencing a chronic deficit of medical service beds

, which has led to the fact that for months we have woken up every day with dozens of admitted patients, of the order of 40 to 50," the toilets stated at the gates of the center, in statements collected by Europe Press.

"When we find ourselves with the increase in respiratory infections, it causes us to wake up every day with 90, 100 and 110 hospitalized patients who do not have a hospital bed for days," they concluded.



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