The final launch of the Cuenca University Hospital marks the opening of a new stage of care for the province, with the start of all health activities, including the emergency service from early morning. “Today one of the greatest commitments culminates … policies of the President of Castilla-La Mancha, my team and the government as a whole with the province of Cuenca, which was to provide it with a university hospital that lays the foundations to achieve excellence in healthcare“, declared José Luis Martínez Guijarro, first vice president of the Council.
The day also left a significant anecdote, since The first two admissions recorded in the new center correspond to two births. As the first vice president pointed out, “there are going to be two new people from Cuenca who are going to come into the world at the University Hospital”, a circumstance that coincided with one of the last admissions treated at the University Hospital. Virgin of Light Hospital It was also linked to a birth.
Martínez Guijarro said he was excited about the start of full activity of the new hospital, which means that in the coming days the La Virgen de la Luz, after sixty years of service, stopped providing health care. Regarding the new center, he stressed that it is “a magnificent hospital which will allow, with the magnificent professionals who were already at the Virgen de la Luz, to which we must add 400 others hired, Cuenca residents enjoy some of the best healthcare in the world“.
The first vice president wanted expressly thank the work carried out by the professionals of the Cuenca Health Zone and in particular for the hundred or so workers directly involved in the patient transfer system. In this context, he recalled that “we moved a hospital in 138 days, from the completion of the first MRI on July 29 until today”, stressing that this process was possible because “the professionals and the Management team put their heart and mind into it”.
“A transfer as planned”
For his part, the general director of the Integrated Zone of Cuenca, José Antonio Ballesteros, explained that the transfer of patients took place as planned. He stressed that “this is something we have been thinking about for many years and there is a whole working team, very prepared people who worked on the design of what is happening today“.
The first vice president of the Council, José Luis Martínez Guijarro, and the mayor of Cuenca, Darío Dolz, followed the operation deployed to transfer patients from Virgen de la Luz to the new hospital center.
Ballesteros detailed that The operation has ten nurses and ten technicians responsible for transporting patients in ten ambulances.who will make the trips staggered throughout the week.
Finally, the mayor of Cuenca, Darío Dolz appreciated the work carried out to put the new hospital into service and highlighted the enthusiasm that being able to have the University Hospital of Cuenca represents for the city.
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