The Hospital of Torrejon attended more than 13,500 people in its first month of activity.

-account with a portfolio of services able to solve 95% of the health problems of its area

Spain, November of 2011- the Hospital of Torrejón, belonging to the public network of hospitals in the community of Madrid, has served more than 13,500 people in its first month of activity: 10.074 outpatient, 392 surgical interventions, 2.789 in the Emergency Department and 300 plant revenues. These data the provided on Friday Health Minister Javier Fernández-Lasquetty after his visit to the hospital.

This health centre, opened on 21 September by the regional President Esperanza Aguirre, started its activity the 22nd with the opening of external consultations. Since the it opened the hospital have been addressed to 10.074 individuals in outpatient consultations, with a waiting media as they arrive at the hospital until the doctor attends them in 15-minute consultation. The Torrejon Hospital also offers its patients consultations in afternoon. In fact, in our first month, 1.366 people have gained access to a specialist in the afternoon, and there are already cited 22.961 patients for the coming months.

In addition, the past October 7 born the first baby in the hospital, two days after the opening of this service. So far have been already born 17 babies, of which 14 have been natural childbirth and three by Caesarean.

surgical activity in the new Hospital of Torrejón began on October 5, according to the schedule of opening marked from the beginning. Since then 392 people have been surgically operated in the hospital. And in most cases – 330 pacientesse have benefited from surgical techniques that do not require income. The rest, 62 patients have required income post-operative. In patients admitted in the hospital, 300 people have benefited from individual rooms offered by the hospital.

Expansion of the portfolio of services

Since its opening, the new hospital has worked on the incorporation of new specialties for coverage to patients even bigger. It has expanded the portfolio of services incorporating technical and maxillofacial surgery of intervention laparoscopic by single access, which reduces the risk of patient infection, requiring only one single less than 3 centimeters incision and allow the recovery of the patient to be faster.

The emergency service of the Hospital of Torrejon also opened its doors on October 5. Since that date, 2.789 people have obtained a solution to their health problems without having to move away from their homes. The average of patients treated in the Emergency Department has been 154 patients per day.

Activity in the Centre began on September 22 and since that date has gone according to plan. Corredor del Henares citizens already enjoyed a new hospital near their homes that saves them unnecessary and uncomfortable travel. The new Center has 250 beds in single rooms and a wide portfolio of services capable of assuming 95 percent of the health care needs of patients of the Henares corridor. The Center’s services include its 20 posts of hospitalization day, 10 operating theaters, 16 posts of dialysis, 6 dislodgement, 83 posts of ER, 89 queries and cabinets, 5 digital systems of Radiology, 10 scanners, 2 TAC multicorte and magnetic resonance imaging of last generation.