Executive Board is creating a referral network for obstetric emergencies this summer. Plan will be ready this month and may involve alternate closures. Evaluations begin in a meeting on the 10th
The Executive Board of the SNS intends to outline this month the operation of a referral network of gynecology and obstetrics emergency services for this summer - and this may imply the alternate closure of these services, as happened at Christmas and New Year's Eve, depending on the assessment of the response of the SNS over the last two weekends.
The work to evaluate the response of the SNS over Christmas and New Year's Eve - which will be used to decide whether or not some maternity hospitals will close over the summer - will begin at a meeting on January 10. The meeting will be attended by the boards of directors of the hospitals whose emergency rooms worked in network over the last weekends (Christmas and New Year's Eve), the directors of gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics and anesthesiology services, the regional health administrations (ARS) and the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM).
In a statement sent out this Monday, the Executive Board of the NHS said that the data collected in the last two weeks will "inform the following decisions, namely the operation of this referral network in the first quarter of 2023 and the summer of next year, which are already being prepared": "Given the complexity of this process, the entire summer period of 2023 is already being prepared this winter.
The latest communiqué from the Executive Directorate of the NHS made a positive balance of the referral network implemented over the last two weekends, which implied constraints in the operation of some services (and the guarantee of operation in others) between 8am on Friday and 8am on the following Monday.
According to the statement, 849 babies were born in public hospitals (366 on Christmas and 483 on New Year's Eve). The "Safe Birth in the NHS" operation ensured "an articulated response to all users who used the health services" and the birthing blocks that were scheduled to operate in full managed to "work uninterruptedly", without "intercurrences".
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