The Minister of Health Fernando Boyd Galindo together with the director of the Social Security Fund, Dino Mon and the director of the National Cancer Institute, Julio Javier Santamaría, took a tour of the Dr. Adán Ríos Ábrego Cancerology Hospital this Thursday, October 3, in the City of Health.
Boyd Galindo stated that this tour of the Cancer Hospital gives way to the beginning of the unification of all the structures of the Ministry of Health, the Social Security Fund and the National Oncology Institute, for the benefit of the care of insured cancer patients and not insured.
“I want to clarify that the ION will not move to the City of Health, each unit will work with the equipment it has, which will benefit the patient, because the delay in care that we have will be reduced from 3 months to one month,” said Boyd. Galindo.
The head of Health explained that work is being done on the administrative organization, the delivery of operating permits and the unification of the few resources available, to begin in an organized manner the transfer of patients from the ION to the Cancer Hospital.
“We have received a donation of a new linear accelerator from the International Atomic Energy Organization, whose value is more than $1 million dollars, which will benefit cancer patients,” said Boyd Galindo.
For his part, Dino Mon, director of the Social Security Fund, indicated that “Panamanians will see many of their aspirations fulfilled with the unification of Minsa and CSS, to improve care services for oncology patients nationwide.”
Finally, Julio Javier Santamaría explained that the ION has 190 beds and the Cancer Hospital has 132, which will allow us to reduce the overcrowding that patients suffering from this disease currently experience. Santamaría reported that currently the National Oncology Institute treats 300 patients per day
