Toledo, (EFE).- The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, has announced that, as of March 31, television in public hospitals in the region will be free.
The President of Castilla-La Mancha, during the inauguration in Toledo of the Regional Transfusion Center, which also provides services to Talavera de la Reina and Guadalajara, together with the Minister of Health, Jesús Fernández Sanz, also pointed out that in 2024 all Public centers in the region will have free open Wi-Fi for users.
The new Toledo-Guadalajara Regional Transfusion Center begins its activity this Monday at the ‘San Ildefonso’ Center for Specialties, Diagnosis and Treatment in Toledo.
With the transfer, the activity at the Virgen de la Salud Hospital ends, which definitively closes its doors and whose closure, the president has said, will be communicated this week to the National Institute of Social Security.
In his speech, he indicated that, with the departure of all services from the old Virgen de la Salud de Toledo hospital, the Social Security Treasury is going to be informed that it has to recover ownership of the building, since the Board does not can take care of maintenance or security.
The hospitals of the Valley and the Provincial, also to the new hospital
And also before March 31, the regional president has said, the formal delivery of the functional plans for the transfer of the Hospital del Valle and the Provincial Hospital of Toledo to the new University Hospital will be carried out.
In this way, the new hospital center in the Santa María de Benquerencia neighborhood will house the three centers that made up the Toledo Hospital Complex and thus increase operability and savings in transport.
The Hospital for Paraplegics will not be transferred, he added, because it is a national reference center that has a “life of its own”.
In this same sense, he has highlighted the good functioning of the new University Hospital of Toledo, “whose move has been exemplary”, he has recognized, while announcing that this year it will be possible in the Health Service of Castilla-La Spot marrow transplant interventions.
El Quixote Crea will host a faculty of the UCLM
García-Page has also indicated that, after the closure of the Virgen de la Salud, a reconversion of the area will take place.
In this sense, it has advanced that in the next few days it will sign with the rector of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Julián Garde, the definitive transfer of the Quixote Crea building, conceived as an auditorium and that the university will also use as a faculty.
The President of Castilla-La Mancha has also indicated that in the next 15 days 70 new health professionals will join the health services of the La Sagra region in the province of Toledo.
Page has highlighted the altruism that Spaniards can boast with the donation system and has referred, in particular, to the Castilian-Manchegos, who occupy “the first positions in donations”, while explaining that every three seconds someone needs blood and that one in two people residing in Spain will need blood at some point in their lives.
1.7 million invested in the Regional Transfusion Center
The new Regional Transfusion Center has cost around 1.7 million euros and, as indicated by the Minister of Health, Jesús Fernández Sanz, the works have consisted of the redistribution and conditioning of the ground and semi-basement floors of the center, an action 85 percent co-financed by the European Union within the 2021-2027 FEDER Program of Castilla-La Mancha.
The Toledo Regional Transfusion Center, part of the Castilla-La Mancha Hemodonation, Hemotherapy and Hemovigilance Network coordinated by Dr. Elena Madrigal, supplies blood to the health centers in its hemotherapy area (Toledo, Talavera de la Reina and Guadalajara). .
Its functions include organizing collection points, blood processing, distribution and the promotion of blood donation in its field of action, in collaboration with blood donor associations.
Last year the center, which works in collaboration with the Brotherhoods of Donors of Toledo, Talavera and Guadalajara, obtained 30,925 whole blood donations and 2,060 apheresis, and collaborates with the Regional Transplant Coordination in the promotion and registration of Marrow Donors Bone and umbilical cord cells.