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(InfoWebPress ) – Through an investment of
some 30 billion colones ($54 million), the
Costa Rican Social Security System (CCSS)
will carry out infrastructure improvements
to several hospitals around the country,
including Nicoya’s La Anexion.
Other hospitals that will benefit from the
project include Ciudad Neilly and Escalante
Pradilla of Perez Zeledon (Southern Zone);
Monseñor Sanabria in Puntarenas; and
Calderon Guardia in San Jose, according to
Gabriela Murillo Jenkins, infrastructure and
technology manager for CCSS.
As part of this initiative, CCSS experts are
currently diagnosing the vulnerability of
each of the selected medical centers. The
next step will be bidding so that
reinforcement works would begin next year,
Murillo Jenkins said.
Through this investment, CCSS seeks to give
continuity to the “Safe Hospital” program,
which began in 2006 with the goal of making
sure that health services throughout the
country are not interrupted following
natural disasters or emergencies.
As part of this program, CCSS recently
organized a workshop for forming a
specialized team on hospital evaluation,
which included nearly 45 CCSS physicians,
nurses, engineers, administrators and
workers from other disciplines.
The functions of this team of evaluators
include advising medical centers on how to
prioritize resources and helping them
establish plans or measures to reduce risk
in the face of any natural or man-made
disaster.
According to Dr. Carlos Samayoa, director of
the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)
Costa Rica office, this country is one of
the regional leaders when it comes to safe
hospital infrastructure issues. Samayoa
added that Costa Rican health authorities
continue to become more and more aware about
the importance of this topic.
According to PAHO numbers, there are some
8,000 hospitals located in high-risk areas
in Latin America and the Caribbean. That’s
why the continental health entity is
interested in promoting in Costa Rica and
other countries, disaster mitigation actions
and measures for ensuring safe medical
facilities.
Other projects for improve health care
include the home care initiative, which
involves hospitals such as Liberia’s Enrique
Baltodano Briceño and Nicoya’s La Anexion —
in addition Puntarenas’ Monseñor Sanabria,
Quepos’ Max Teran Vols, Limon’s Tony Facio,
and San Jose’s Mexico, Psychiatric and
Women’s Hospital, among others.
This service involves offering patients who
have left the hospital, or those who need to
receive ambulatory treatments, medications
and complete treatments at home through the
involvement of relatives.
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