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PSOE denounces the removal of the ambulance in Santa Fe

The withdrawal of the emergency vehicle affects over 40,000 residents across eleven municipalities in La Vega and key points.

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The PSOE of Granada has denounced the removal of the non-medicalized ambulance in Santa Fe, a measure affecting over 40,000 residents in eleven municipalities of La Vega and strategic points like the A-92 and the airport.

The Granada-Metropolitan Health District announced at the end of May the withdrawal of the non-medicalized ambulance from the Basic Health Zone (ZBS) of Santa Fe during nighttime hours. The PSOE of Granada has criticized that this decision jeopardizes emergency and urgent care for over 40,000 residents across eleven municipalities in La Vega, as well as key points on the A-92 highway and the airport. The socialists have joined the healthcare workers' demands to revoke the measure and provide more resources to the area.
During a concentration outside the Health Center of Santa Fe, the elected Andalusian regional representative María Ángeles Prieto stated that the ZBS only has one healthcare team to serve the entire population, in a geographically dispersed area with evident risks. "Two more teams are needed, three teams in total, to guarantee safe and quality care for the population of these municipalities," she asserted.
The measure, which healthcare workers have protested and requested be reversed by June 8th, involves the elimination of the non-medicalized ambulance service (Type A) from 00:00 hours. This would force the sole mobile ICU and the healthcare team of the ZBS to also cover the ZBS of Armilla and Atarfe.
"Under these conditions, if an urgent call comes in and the mobile ICU is occupied, which will be frequent with the new reorganization, the healthcare team in Santa Fe will have to close the emergency point and travel in a vehicle driven by an orderly and not equipped for patient transport," explained the representative.
Prieto added that it is "unacceptable" for residents in this area to find the health center closed in case of an urgent health problem. "This has already happened twice this weekend, and with the new reorganization, this will become the norm," she stated, questioning the healthcare reform being implemented by Moreno Bonilla.
The demands of the healthcare workers include the recovery of the second ambulance and the reinforcement of professional teams. "Emergency and urgent care for an area of 40,000 inhabitants, including 6 residences with 600 elderly residents, near a highway, and with significant geographical dispersion, which must also attend to incidents at the airport, cannot be resolved with just one ambulance and one emergency team," she asserted.
The new reorganization will also affect the Basic Health Zones of Armilla and Atarfe, which share a mobile ICU with Santa Fe. Professionals warn that "the measures unilaterally proposed by the Junta jeopardize the healthcare response capacity of these areas and worsen patient safety."
For her part, the socialist spokesperson in the Santa Fe City Council, Patricia Carrasco, stated that "the dismantling of public healthcare in Andalusia is a reality we are already experiencing in Santa Fe. The cuts affect our healthcare professionals and the care provided by our health center, which will now be further diminished during the holiday season."

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