The president of the Cabildo attended the working meeting held with the deputy minister of Health, Carlos Díaz, who announced that the tender will be issued within a month.
The medicalized helicopter based in Fuerteventura will soon be a reality. This is what the Deputy Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands and director of the Canary Health Service, Carlos Diaz, told the president of the Cabildo, Lola Garcia, in a working meeting held at the General Hospital of Fuerteventura.
The tender for this service was not awarded last year, so the Government of the Canary Islands has adapted the project and increased the financial allocations to be able to put it out to tender again, as was reported at the meeting, in less than a month’s time.
In this way, Lola Garcia celebrates that the Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands Government has reactivated a life support resource that has always been a historical demand of the majorera society and that finally will be a reality in Fuerteventura.
“This will improve the quality of care in emergency situations,” explained the island president, who also stressed the need to continue working to reduce waiting lists on the island, in a meeting that included the intervention of managers and management teams of the different public hospitals of the archipelago and the director of the Fuerteventura Health Area, Tomás Pérez, to analyze the data corresponding to the care activity developed by all the hospital management of the SCS.
Likewise, Lola García reiterated to the Government of the Canary Islands the urgency of having a CAE in the south of the Island, which has already started the studies to be able to put it out to tender soon, and other health care centers throughout the island territory, hoping that these projects can be promoted in this same fiscal year.
Lola García also highlights the significant improvement in healthcare management in Fuerteventura with the implementation of the Unified Clinical History Viewer, which began operating this year at the Fuerteventura General Hospital and the health centers. A system that allows doctors and nurses to access in real time and from anywhere in the archipelago to all the clinical information of a patient, ensuring a faster and more efficient care.
Likewise, during the meeting, an assessment was made of the patients using the Radiation Oncology unit of the Fuerteventura General Hospital, which was set up in June 2022. Since the beginning of its activity and until December 31, 2024, it has treated 490 patients, and a total of 6,495 radiotherapy sessions have been administered. In addition, around 3,100 successive check-up consultations have been performed during this period.
