Santander (EFE).- The strengths of the National Health System (SNS), how Primary Care and specialized health training are organized, the screening programs and the training of professionals are links in the health chain that Jordan is learning in Spain. The idea is that this country can replicate everything that can be used from the Spanish model.
Within a project financed by the EU and channeled in Spain by the CSAI Foundation of the Ministry of Health, a Jordanian delegation has visited several Spanish regions these days.
This expedition has also been to the Ministry itself to learn more about the National Health System in situ.
One of the regions visited has been Galicia, where the delegation has learned about the policies for chronic patients and how extra-hospital emergencies are attended to.
They have also explained Primary Care to him and he has seen the A Estrada (Pontevedra) health center, the most awarded in the BIC (Best in Class).
This group has also moved through the Basque Country, where its authorities have shown them their cancer screening programs.
And in Cantabria, the members of the expedition have seen innovation and simulation techniques to train professionals at the Valdecilla Virtual Hospital.
The project coordinator, Miguel Rodríguez, explains to EFE that the Jordanian delegation is gathering information and finding out how the health system is organized in Spain.
The ultimate goal is to “replicate everything that is replicable in its context”.
In this sense, Spanish health personnel and experts have traveled to Jordan on several occasions to train professionals from the country there.
And they have done so in Primary Care indicators, in public health, and in how to train resident tutors and family doctors.
Rodríguez points out that it is a long-term project, so it has already been approved to extend the duration until July 2025.
The idea is to strengthen the Jordanian health system, in the context of the arrival and reception of Syrian refugees.
Governance and leadership
Dr. Anas Almohtaseb, who is part of the Jordanian delegation, highlights the importance of this collaborative experience.
And this because it involves “a transfer of talent, of highly experienced people” who teach their knowledge on the ground, “generating great wealth”.
Of everything they have seen so far within the program, Anas considers everything related to governance, as well as techniques to foster leadership development, to be the most beneficial for his country.
“It is important to know how to help professionals to be creative and find solutions to problems,” he says.
And precisely in that leg of the training, they have visited the Valdecilla de Santander Virtual Hospital. “The Jordanian Royal House is interested in creating a simulation center in that country, and therefore the training and this visit,” says Miguel Rodríguez.
loneliness in older people
The Jordanian representative sees decentralization as a great strength of the Spanish system.
“I think it is a critical feature because each region, depending on its context, can make its decisions and personalize health, with policies better directed at its citizens,” he says.
Dr. Anas Almohtaseb also highlights the “enormous investment” and the good infrastructure of Spanish healthcare.
As a ‘must’ and as a challenge for Spanish society as a whole, he stresses that “there are many older people who live alone” in Spain.
“And technology is not going to replace that loneliness. It can help take care of these people, but it is a problem that is not going to be fixed with machines,” he warns.