Hundreds of people with children in their arms and older adults got up early this Friday morning to the hospital facilities Honorio Delgado Espinoza to form long lines and wait to get an outpatient appointment.
From the Regional Health Management reported that, among other problems, the main drawback is that the hospital does not properly schedule the role of specialists in advance. Due to this delay appointments cannot be granted.
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If the programming advances, the appointments could be projected for at least two months. Nevertheless, every end of the month the system is enabled With the quotas that there are by specialty and the people referred from the health centers, they go to the hospital to have the schedules made for them.
The Regional Health Manager, Christian Nova, added that he has verified that most of the patients referred from health centers, They are not confirmed the date of their care, so they go to the hospital themselves to have the day and time of their consultation fixed.
“In September we have already given the guidelines for the delivery of appointments and apparently they are not being fulfilled and we are going to take the corresponding measures after obtaining the opinion of human resources and legal advice.”; she said.
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