2023-12-16 09:00:00
The Provincial Hospital of Castellón is facing a difficult crisis in two of its most sensitive areas, Nuclear Medicine and Traumatology, due to the lack of doctors in the midst of the new direction led by psychiatrist Matías Real. However, it is in the first of these units, Nuclear Medicine, in which the problems can worsen taking into account the situation of the staff, with only two specialists now working, and the number of patients who are treated as it is the only service. throughout the province.
Nuclear Medicine accumulates more than 170 unreported files, according to hospital sources consulted by this newspaper. An accumulation of work that may be aggravated by the lack of personnel since two of the four specialists are not currently on staff as one has taken leave and the other has ceased his position. In fact, as EL MUNDO reported, this unit has been without a head of service since March since Marcos Tajahuerce, who now works at the IVO, left the position without it being filled by the previous Ministry of Health.
That is to say, of the five professionals that the Nuclear Medicine team had, there are currently only two active, so everything indicates that the number of unreported files could increase enormously if the Provincial Hospital Consortium does not quickly provide a remedy.
For now, the dispute between the Nuclear Medicine service and the hospital management has been settled with the opening of a disciplinary file against the four doctors who until now were on the service’s staff, as this newspaper has learned, with the possibility of being sanctioned for a serious or very serious offense.
The management of the center has argued that “although it is true that the head of the service has been vacant since last March, without being covered by the previous management, there is organically an area head of Central Services that assumes tasks inherent to the head office.” vacant while the appropriate procedures are being carried out so that the vacant position is filled according to regulations. The hospital insists that the appropriate steps are being taken to cover the sick leave that has occurred in the service immediately.
However, the service problems have been going on for a long time as there have already been several occasions in which an increase in staff has been requested. The last one, on November 14, when a letter was sent to the management signed by the four members – now only two remain – denouncing that “the staff is clearly insufficient in a service that even in times of lower care pressure was of 5 professionals.
The complaint goes further, warning that “the need for at least one more doctor and the immediate creation of a service headquarters has been claimed. However, our demands have not been met but we are being overloaded by the medical leadership, all without consensus or without reaching any agreement. This causes chaos in the organization of the service and in decision making.
From the CCOO union they have been denouncing that the four medical professionals “have gone through the Occupational Health service to express the physical and emotional loss that this situation is causing them. At this time, one physician is on sick leave and another has voluntarily resigned from his position, leaving the staff reduced to two physicians and aggravating to unbearable limits the situation of collapse in the output of reports, ultimately being, “The patients, the great sufferers.”
VALENCIA SERVICE HEADS DEFEND IN A WRITING THAT THE PROVINCIAL’S WORKLOAD “IS ASSUMED”
The existing conflict in Nuclear Medicine of the Provincial Hospital Consortium has reached the province of Valencia, where five specialists have signed a letter addressed to the General Directorate of Hospital Care, as this newspaper has learned, ruling regarding the “conflict present in the Service of Nuclear Medicine of the Provincial Hospital Consortium of Castellón. The heads of the Nuclear Medicine service of five health departments in the province of Valencia indicate that “the plan represents a standard workload in any other similar service in the Valencian Community, which is completely acceptable on an individual basis, which is also provided to the number of physicians in the service and that cannot be estimated as work overload.
The management of the Castellón Provincial Hospital Consortium has only stated, regarding the conflict in Nuclear Medicine due to the alleged lack of professionals reported by the service, that “we can clarify that the only thing that has been required of Nuclear Medicine professionals is that “carry out the same tasks and under identical conditions as their counterparts in the rest of the health departments of the Valencian Community” without confirming the existence of a disciplinary file open to doctors. In this sense, the hospital management considers that the proposed work plan is feasible with the commitment that the workforce will be reinforced to make up for the current absence.
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