The CCOO has denounced that a scanner that costs 1 million euros, located in the Emigrantes specialty center, which belongs to the area of influence of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital, located north of the capital, is not used 100% due to lack of staff. This specialty center is located next to the Higher Sports Council, in the Hortaleza district.
The machine, which was recently inaugurated, is only operational two days a week due to lack of personnel. A scanner of these characteristics requires two radiology and radiodiagnostic technicians per machine for each shift. So far, "no specialist has been hired," says the union. And he adds: "The two days a week that the scanner works, the professionals who attend the machine have to travel from another center or hospital to the specialty center."
CCO explains that 35 tests without contrast and 25 with contrast can be performed each shift. According to his calculations, if enough personnel are hired for its daily use, "in just over 15 days the wait would be over." Specifically, the waiting list for diagnostic tests in public health in the Community of Madrid last March was almost 200,000 people, exactly 174,681 and almost 81,000 (80,727) have been waiting for more than three months. Specifically, 500 people from Madrid in the care area have been waiting months to get tested.
CCOO recalls that "it is not the first time that the Community of Madrid installs state-of-the-art diagnostic test devices and does not hire personnel to manage their use".
In the note, the union recalls that the only magnetic resonance linear accelerator in Spain, donated by the Amancio Ortega Foundation to the La Paz public hospital, which can treat 40 types of cancer, registered only 12 patients last year, when similar machines in their first year of operation they were used, for example, by 160 patients at the Sacro Cuore hospital in Verona, Italy or by 390 people at the Severance hospital in Seoul, South Korea. The La Paz device costs about 9 million euros and the manufacturer specifies that its performance is prepared to test between 10 and 15 patients a day, in sessions of 30 and 60 minutes. Meanwhile, some patients are referred to private hospitals in the Community of Madrid, where you have these types of machines in operation for more than 12 hours.
