The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of the La Paz Hospital reopened this Monday, with the incorporation of six new professionals, according to the Ministry of Health, after remaining closed for almost a month due to not having doctors willing to work under its command. of the head of service, Pedro de la Oliva. According to CCOO, "for the moment three doctors have joined the morning shift."
This decision by the hospital management occurs once the courts have ratified the dismissal of Dr. Pedro de la Oliva as head of said unit. He is going to replace Paloma Dorado in the position.
The Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Fátima Matute, has stressed that she hopes that the PICU can be 100% operational this week and has celebrated the "very good news" of the gradual reincorporation of these professionals.
All of this, three days after the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) revoked the resolution that ordered the incorporation of Pedro de la Oliva as head of service last June.
"At the moment, there are three patients admitted and the arrival of a fourth is expected," CCOO union sources report. In fact, from this same union they assure that "three doctors have joined and it is not ruled out that in the coming days another three who were on sick leave will return."
Dr. Paloma Dorado remains at the head of the unit, who has already carried out this work before the return of Pedro de la Oliva. Regarding the nurses, guards and administrators, "they have also worked completely on the morning shift," union sources report.
"Today, with the professionals incorporated, we can say that we are practically returning to normality," stressed the head of Madrid's Health Service, who stressed that, in any case, assistance has always been guaranteed with the support from the rest of the center's units and the rest of the hospitals.
"Thank you to all the people who are at the La Paz Hospital and have made it possible for this transit, in which we have been by their side and for the children, to have been very easy," the counselor emphasized.
The conflict exploded a few weeks ago with the reinstatement of Dr. Pedro de la Oliva as head of the PICU service on January 16, the second in the context of a judicialized labor conflict that has been dragging on for years. The associate physicians who held their position in said unit resigned or resigned from their contracts, so that from then on this unit was staffed only by the aforementioned head of service and another part-time physician, which meant it had to be closed for the lack of doctors.
Each year, the Pediatric ICU cares for more than 900 children in critical condition from all over the national territory and with great medical-surgical complexity such as transplants, congenital heart disease, polytrauma, accidents, oncology, metabolic pathologies, rare and serious diseases, among others.
