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In "emergency" is the Dr. Manuel Noriega Trigo Hospital, located in the municipality of San Francisco and assigned to the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security (Ivss). The auditorium has become the pediatric emergency area, the intensive care unit (ICU) is closed, the blood bank is running halfway and, to top it off, the elevators are broken.
The auditorium, ideal space for conferences, meetings and special events, serves as an emergency room.
But in the "Noriega Trigo", the unthinkable is a reality. Although the health center staff reiterates that the room does not have the required conditions, the lack of conditions to take care of children in their former headquarters motivated the adequacy of the site and now they receive cases pediatric, they said.
The stand contrasts with medical instruments. Now there were chairs and executive equipment, now there are beds and medical machines. Inaudito. This was described by the workers, who said that they work under these conditions "only for the welfare of patients."
The UCI has been closed for 21 days. A doctor who did not want to identify said that the unit had no air conditioners or supplies to treat patients.
Another unusual scenario is in the blood bank, which works hard. The centrifuge is damaged and breaks the test tubes in the machine. "It's a delay for us, the time is vital for a patient and there are times when the samples are lost, so we have to report them to the patients.How can we work like this?" Rejeta Rosa González .
In addition, the refrigerator freezes blood samples, denounced González. In an attempt to remedy the situation, they entered the area a domestic refrigerator that can not be equated with the operation of a specialist because "it breaks the red blood cells of the patients' blood and unfortunately c & rsquo; Is what we have.Managers know it, "said González.
As if that was not enough, the elevators were damaged for 4 months. Patients and medical and nursing staff must use the stairs as the only way to get to the different floors of the hospital.
Because of this situation, the obstetric area is closed, said Elio Balzán, a nurse. "We can not expose the parturients to go up and down stairs, it's unheard of," said Balzán
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On the other hand, his colleagues said that eight days ago, a colleague fell on the stairs. "She was coming down the stairs with trays and she had an accident.It's fractured an arm and a tailbone, we got here but there was nothing to worry about." she and they did not want to admit it, we had to take her to the Pons, the nurses complained in a protest made yesterday to the hospital to ask for a readjustment.
Faced with Allegations, Elizabeth Borjas, director of the Noriega Trigo, said that the pediatric emergency had been transferred to the public because of an ongoing remodeling and that it should be completed. in about three weeks
On the Blood Bank, he noted that "the refrigerator is in good condition but sometimes the samples are frozen" and that the Ivss seeks to solve the problem, as well as the repair of the elevators. 19659002] Borjas rejected that the UCI be closed due to the lack of conditions and maintained that his inactivity is due to the fact that "there is currently no patient to be treated there". He added that the staff is kept in the neonatal intensive care unit (Utin) and when there are cases of adults, they move the children to the lower floor.
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