The Health Department, Torrevieja prepares to meet the summer emergency

– both the Torrevieja Hospital and health centres that are members of the Department are at full capacity to assume the increase in urgent cases of the era summer.

– last year health centres resolved more than 90 per cent of the Emergency Department of Torrevieja

-health professionals insist on using responsible for” of hospital emergencies and recommend that users go, except for serious cases, the points of urgencies of the health centres in the Department.

Torrevieja, 2011-July The Health Department, Torrevieja, managed by Bank health and Asisa and integrated in the public network of the Generalitat Valenciana, is prepared to assume the increase in emergencies that are planned during the summer.

Each summer the Department of health Torrevieja adapts to these dates to assume the increase in urgent cases often take place to coincide with the tourism upturn in the coastal municipalities, time now to double the population without affected waiting times, quality and efficiency in health care.

In this regard, both the Hospital and health centres that are members of the Department have already been reinforced in order to enhance the services and to solve the health demand due to the increase in users displaced from other municipalities and communities.

Points of continuing care in primary care (PAC), have an important role in the care of the urgent diseases mild and moderate in the Department of health Torrevieja. Proof of this are the data collected in the past year, in which health centres resolved more than 90% of the total emergency in the area. This is, ultimately, enhance the doors of emergency points of continuing care in conjunction with the hospital emergency room and patients perceive the disproportionate population increase of the time. As novelty this year, in daytime will be running the PACS of La Mata and El Acequión.

It should be recalled that the last summer season (June, July, August and September), only in the Hospital in Torrevieja, was recorded a daily average of 226 emergency and more than 27.360 urgent consultations.

The Manager of the Department of health of Torrevieja, Frank Leyn, has assured that the goal for the summer season is the maintenance of the satisfaction levels of our patients seeking urgent assistance to be nimble and effective; ensuring that the user not perceived the increase of population ”.

For this reason, are functioning 6 points of call 24 hours. (Cap), equipped with mild and moderate emergency care, allowing lead only the most serious cases to the Hospital in Torrevieja.

SMS with the word er ” to the 25013

Florence computer system used in the Department of health of Torrevieja allows you to unify the various points of emergency and inform about actual waiting times at every moment. It should be recalled that any user can, by sending an SMS with the shovel er ” to the 25013 know waiting times to be served in any of the CAP and hospital emergency room, thus avoiding unnecessary delays.