The director of the National Health Service (SNS), Mario Lama, inaugurated the Adult, Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units of the Dr. Francisco Vicente Castro Sandoval Hospital, known as the new hospital in Boca Chica, through a strategic redistribution and equipping of areas.
At the inauguration ceremony, the head of the SNS, Dr. Mario Lama, explained that the renovation enabled four beds in the Adult ICU, two in the Pediatric ICU and eight cubicles for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. He also assured that the new units will expand the coverage of critical services in the Public Network, which are so needed in the country.
He also announced that the transformation of the local hospital in Boca Chica into a pediatric care hospital is in the process of being approved.
Meanwhile, the director of Maternal and Child Health and Adolescents of the SNS, Martín Ortiz, highlighted that the new areas, apart from having a positive impact on the community of Boca Chica, will increase the number of Pediatric ICU beds in the Public Network by 70% and support the Eastern region in terms of intensive care services.
“These new units will expand the center’s portfolio of services, since we have never provided these services before. They will also reduce mortality and increase the quality of life of users, since we will avoid transfers to the National District, which were often fatal for our patients,” emphasized María Altagracia Mora, director of the hospital.
The SNS provided the equipment for the operation of the new areas, including the installation of four adult-pediatric and neonatal ventilators with turbine, a three-transducer ultrasound and thermal printer and UPS (sonograph), two defibrillators with monitor and paddles, six manual mechanical beds with multiple functions for hospitalization, two five-parameter vital signs monitors with a wall base.
The rooms were also equipped with a reception counter, a desk, a clinical office, a three-channel electrocardiograph, three laryngoscopes, two for adults and one for neonatal, six metal rolling tables for patient meals, six tables for hospitalization and two two-field metal negatoscopes, among others, for a value of 7.6 million pesos.
