The closure of the pediatric ICU of the La Paz hospital in Madrid is already affecting other children's hospitals in Madrid and other cities in Spain, which cannot refer serious pediatric patients and have had to resort to other Sermas hospitals, they denounce the nurses union, Satse.
There were 75 nurses working in the pediatric ICU of La Paz who have been relocated to other resuscitation services or critical care units.
"There have already been cases of pediatric patients who, due to their severity and being candidates to be treated by this unit, a regional and national reference for highly complex care, have been referred to other centers," reports Marta Arribas, nurse and Satse delegate. Madrid in the La Paz hospital, which demands "that it be opened urgently."
The closed unit in La Paz had 20 beds and highly specialized personnel "that cannot be opened in another hospital center as there is no space or highly trained nurses to care for them."
Another of the units that in the La Paz hospital complex itself is being affected by the pediatric ICU is the post-surgical critical care service of the children's hospital, which has nine beds and whose nurses have helped maintain the quality of care for the patients. pediatric critics.
Satse Madrid has addressed the Ministry of Health demanding "a prompt solution to this problem, since an exclusively medical problem cannot be allowed to affect children who are admitted to our hospitals."
