The José Ramón López Tabrane gynecobstric hospital, from Matanzas, has faced a serious crisis for months due to the stoppage of its only elevator.
According to an investigation of the newspaper Girónthe Health Center reports alarming situations, such as a patient with obstetric hemorrhage who required seven hours for transfer from the third floor, in charge of the Fire Department.
“The elevators date from many years of exploitation, their bedroom is obsolete and the various repairs have turned their mechanical part into hybrid; Even the doors were blocked, so only one worked, ”explained the director of the center, Dr. Ariel Rodríguez Prado.
The crisis was exacerbated in 2024, when, shortly after, “the elevator presented problems in the voltage variat, indispensable piece, root by obsolescence.” Then, the director adds, he arranged, but failed again. “Then the machine struck. This happened in June and no immediate solution is attached. ”
Dr. Kenais Montejo Carmenate, head of anesthesiology, warns that the breakdown “prolongs the postoperative stay and hinders the flow of the obstetric unit.”
The hospital does not have intensive care, so the transfer requires firefighters, since they are intubated patients, Montejo Carmenate has. “This implies risks; In addition, everything stops to enlist the living room again. ”
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According to the report, two compatible elevators remain without installing for more than one year in another hospital in the province of Artemisa, while a source of the state -owned company, “which declined to face” to the investigation, attributes the situation to the situation to the Financial deficit that prevents the purchase of pieces for the health sector during the last five years.
By the way, the press media questioned why the solution of the elevator is not included in any public health plan or the government, a problem that has been exposed several to the MINSAP.
Girón indicates that government officials and commissions of the Maternal Child Program have visited the health center, “interested in the affectation that harms its dynamics.”
“The breakage of the elevator in a hospital classifies as a problem of high sensitivity, because it is not any elevator,” says the newspaper, because “the risk assumes it daily serious patients or those who physiologically give light to a new be”.
