“It is very good to start restoring this life.” Jose Martin is one of the patients who released the lung transplant program that was authorized by Junta de Castilla y león at Salamanca Hospital and transferred this feeling a few days ago when he was next to the other patient and the medical team that made the bilateral pulmonary character.
Another patient, primitive Valderrey, joint evaluation and thanks to health staff who made pulmonary replacement possible. “I am grateful, I hope to enjoy everything that remains in life,” he said.
he The first offer of lung transplantation in Salamanca He coincided with the calendar with a letter in which the Minister of Health, Monica Garcia, has coincided with the ministry to pay attention to the development of this program, given that the regional government has promoted it without attending the criteria expressed by the National Planting Organization (ON), which advised to open it “when considering that the activity of the scripts in the currently advanced plans.
That is, the number of interventions will not reach the minimum determined by the high specialization team to maintain the ideal practice for high complexity. The Council decided to move forward with Pulmonary transplantation in Salamanca Despite this first technical objection, the entity that finally intended the Salamanca Hospital to perform this bait.
Minister Monica Garcia and Chancellor Alejandro Fakiz, in the form of a file.
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This message is an answer that the minister refers to Francisco Ika, the former vice president of the council, and now an independent lawyer, participated with the ministerial team their interest in the safety of patients before a decision defending IGA that the political interest in front of the world of organizations such as ON has prevailed. In September, the Public Prosecutor of the Mixed Group in Cortis sent a message to the minister who urges the central government to stop the lung transplant program in Salama, in light of the argument that it was a political decision and lacks the “technical meaning” that risk the lives of patients who enter the operating room.
Ike recalled that when the citizens were responsible for the Ministry of Health, this request was rejected in the face of unavoidable reports of scientific societies. The lawyer, the doctor, said, according to the profession.
Minister Monica Garcia is moving in its response to the parliament that understands and participates in the illegal earning program and recalls that the National Planting Organization “reviewed all the available data related to the possibility of opening a pneumonate program in Salamlamca.” The analysis that culminated at the invitation of “wisdom” and the advice for its opening.
The minister insists that health politicians decisions must always put patients and the quality of care in the center.
“From the Ministry of Health, in particular, from ON, we continue to work while always monitoring quality, fairness and safety in reaching transplants. Our job is to facilitate, coordinate and direct technically, but as you know, the final decision regarding the opening of new programs is compatible with independent societies. ”
From the council, he reassured them when the program was launched in Salamanca, which annually advances about 25 pulmonary transplants for patients from Castilla Y León, who have so far been referring to hospitals in Madrid and Kanabria. The goal is to be done in Salamanca Hospital. They even hope to obtain lung receptors from other societies, as they are an intervention not limited to eight hospital centers in the country. These eight hospitals add 400 transplants on average a year.
“We are very living in the development of this situation and we continue to accompany, support and ensure that any decision that is always taken has patients and quality of care in the center,” said the chief of health in his letter to Francisco IKA.