The Departament de Salut Castelló organizes the second day of palliative care

-Guillermo Ferran, director general of management and healthcare of the Ministry of health, closing the event

– in the event have been dealt with fundamental issues such as the communication at the end of life, ethical aspects of palliative medicine and case studies

– each year, health serves nearly 17,000 patients with these needs

Castellón, March 2012.- Commission of palliative care of the Castelló Salut Department has organized the day II of palliative care in the Department, which aims to show the importance of palliative care in chronically ill from different health areas.

The event, which was held in the Auditorium of the plant 3rd of the General Hospital of Castellón, has been closed by the director-general of planning and the Ministry of health, Guillermo Ferran. healthcare

Ferrán has highlighted the work of practitioners of this Department in the field of palliative care and the importance of these that people acquire a greater quality of life during the last stage of his life.

Responsible for this day has been Elisa Arnau, head of the unit of home hospitalization of the Castellló Department of health, who has presented the program established by the Department on palliative care.

Those attending the Symposium have been able to reflect on at the end of life communication ”, conference given by the psychologist of the Hospital La Magdalena Gloria Saavedra.

Also, the optional of the unit of care palliative Hospital La Magdalena, Javier Quimera, has exposed the ethical aspects of medicine in palliative care. Important this section given that in recent decades this medicine has evolved much and very quickly, and toilets have been adapting to their ethical needs.

On this day it has dedicated also to case studies, taught by nurses management of cases (community and hospital) of the Departament of Castelló Juana Trullenque and Victoria Andreu. His work focuses on identifying and supporting cases requiring palliative care.

In fact, in this Department for six years, training courses are giving to family carers, given the importance of the figure they have so that the patient has a higher quality of care and thereby improve their quality of life.

Comprehensive plan for palliative care of the Comunitat

This program, in effect until 2013, presents a quantitative and qualitative leap in comprehensive, continuous and active care of these patients and their families, and so seeks to provide care in the place that is most convenient for each person, respecting their values and preferences.

Also, estimated the population of the susceptible Comunitat need palliative care, on the basis of the mortality caused specifically by irreversible progressive diseases, would be of 16.927 per year, of which 60 per cent would be cancer patients and 40% non-oncologic.

With regard to provision of palliative care is offered in the Comunitat, this fits in the 24 departments of health, where the current organization of care circuits and coordination mechanisms in palliative care, both core level and advanced level, are structured among primary care teams, hospital to home (UHDTV) units, and attention to chronic and long stay hospitals.