The Junta de Castilla y León hopes that the first radiotherapy patient in Ávila will be expected in the capital during the first half of the year. This was announced this Friday by the Deputy Minister for Health Care, Planning and Health Results, Jesús García-Cruces, who stated that this March the work will be finished, as planned, although "the installation of the machine will take a while." little with the terms that they are giving us from the Nuclear Safety Council”.
Thus, we will have to wait a little longer to have a service up and running which, García-Cruces said, is now “in the hands of a third party”, in reference to the Nuclear Safety Council. “It is about the supervision by a relief body that the Nuclear Safety Council has. They have their times and we deeply respect them”, he added, thus justifying the new delay before which the vice-counselor stressed that “once the machine is installed, everything will go very quickly, because everything is already prepared”.
Thus, García-Cruces explains how, at that moment, they will work with doctors, oncologists and radiotherapists from Salamanca as it is a "satellite community". "And here we are going to have more staff", he continued explaining, to underline the idea of "starting radiotherapy satellite units throughout Castilla y León" to, after Ávila, continue with Segovia, Palencia, El Bierzo and Soria "with the same scheme”. In addition, he announced that in Ávila we have introduced the figure of the radiotherapy technical coordinator, "a figure that does not yet exist in other communities."
No concerts in Primary Care
The Deputy Minister of Health Care, Planning and Results in Health defended this Friday the "good management" of the Junta de Castilla y León in Primary Care and ruled out that it is planned to process concerts to alleviate the wait "at this time", despite the " Lack of professionals in certain areas” suffered by the service in “difficult-to-fill positions”.
García-Cruces, who made these statements to the media before participating in the informative breakfast organized in Ávila by the Executive Forum, assured that from Sacyl they have been using "the tool of using afternoons, of expanding agendas, of what we call 'agendas of rest' and the afternoon agendas with auto-concert”.
"All of this is having a very good effect, so that we are greatly reducing delays in the first appointment," the deputy minister continued, noting that Ávila is "between the first and second health areas in Castilla y León with the shortest delivery time. hope for the first appointment with the family doctor", something that was expected "a success of management and collaboration with professionals".
