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04-10-2024, 07:32 AM
The measure has already been taken at the Alcaravaneras Health Center that has these facilities
The Alcaravaneras Health Centre, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has a new minor surgery operating theatre, which will benefit about 119,130 patients in the basic health areas of La Isleta, Guanarteme, Alcaravaneras and Santa Brígida. It is not the first on the island, it joins those existing in Barrio Atlántico and El Doctoral, and the intention of the Ministry of Health is to continue with the opening of an operating room like this in the Archipelago.
These minor surgery operating theatres in the Canary Islands outpatient clinics arise with the aim of "facilitating accessibility to the population", in addition to providing greater capacity to primary care to resolve several pathologies in "a short period of time", "reducing waiting lists for hospital care", says Health.
The Ministry indicates that the development of minor surgery activities in health centers contributes to "improving the health system from the point of view of efficiency and care" by providing greater attention to the population and "reducing waiting times" by managing everything through primary care.
Likewise, with regard to the economic aspect and coordination between care areas, "these services have proven to be cost-effective and reduce waiting lists for General Surgery and Dermatology", highlights Health.
What interventions are carried out in these spaces? According to the Ministry, in the Basic Minor Surgery Units "the approach of skin wounds, skin abscesses, dermatofibroma, epidermal cyst, mucoid cyst, warts, molluscum contagiosum, soft fibroid/pendulum, nail removal, incarnata nail and whitlows is carried out".
In addition to this list of procedures, there are also Advanced Minor Surgery Units, where "injuries that cannot be assumed for safety" in the basic units are treated, as well as "melanocytic nevus, actinic keratosis, seborrheic keratosis and lipomas".
Current and future units
In total, there are six advanced minor surgery units in the Canary Islands, of which three are in Gran Canaria, two in Tenerife and one in Fuerteventura.
Now, after inaugurating the minor surgery operating theatre in Alcaravaneras, the Ministry of Health has set other objectives: "We want to incorporate an Advanced Minor Surgery Unit in the south of Tenerife and another Unit in the Cs Corralejo in Fuerteventura, in addition to promoting the development of the Basic Minor Surgery Units".
The Alcaravaneras Health Centre, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has a new minor surgery operating theatre, which will benefit about 119,130 patients in the basic health areas of La Isleta, Guanarteme, Alcaravaneras and Santa Brígida. It is not the first on the island, it joins those existing in Barrio Atlántico and El Doctoral, and the intention of the Ministry of Health is to continue with the opening of an operating room like this in the Archipelago.
These minor surgery operating theatres in the Canary Islands outpatient clinics arise with the aim of "facilitating accessibility to the population", in addition to providing greater capacity to primary care to resolve several pathologies in "a short period of time", "reducing waiting lists for hospital care", says Health.
The Ministry indicates that the development of minor surgery activities in health centers contributes to "improving the health system from the point of view of efficiency and care" by providing greater attention to the population and "reducing waiting times" by managing everything through primary care.
Likewise, with regard to the economic aspect and coordination between care areas, "these services have proven to be cost-effective and reduce waiting lists for General Surgery and Dermatology", highlights Health.
What interventions are carried out in these spaces? According to the Ministry, in the Basic Minor Surgery Units "the approach of skin wounds, skin abscesses, dermatofibroma, epidermal cyst, mucoid cyst, warts, molluscum contagiosum, soft fibroid/pendulum, nail removal, incarnata nail and whitlows is carried out".
In addition to this list of procedures, there are also Advanced Minor Surgery Units, where "injuries that cannot be assumed for safety" in the basic units are treated, as well as "melanocytic nevus, actinic keratosis, seborrheic keratosis and lipomas".
Current and future units
In total, there are six advanced minor surgery units in the Canary Islands, of which three are in Gran Canaria, two in Tenerife and one in Fuerteventura.
Now, after inaugurating the minor surgery operating theatre in Alcaravaneras, the Ministry of Health has set other objectives: "We want to incorporate an Advanced Minor Surgery Unit in the south of Tenerife and another Unit in the Cs Corralejo in Fuerteventura, in addition to promoting the development of the Basic Minor Surgery Units".