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A doctor attends to a patient at the Son Espases hospital. Photo: IBSALUT.<\/p><\/div>\n
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The Balearic Society of Intensive, Critical Medicine and Coronary Units (SBMICIUC) has warned of the saturation of the Intensive Surveillance Units (ICU) due to a lack of beds and specialist personnel in this area. In the same way, they warned of the exhaustion and job insecurity of the staff.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the entity has asked that the seriousness of the situation in critical care units not be turned away, since these deficiencies also affect “all patients with any other pathology that require admission and assistance in an ICU.” \u201d.<\/p>\n
This situation that affects the quality of patient care occurs despite the “enormous and constant effort of intensive care physicians to provide the best possible care, despite not having adequate resources.”<\/p>\n
The intensivists have lamented that “continually, we have been forced to increase working hours, as well as the number of patients that each professional must attend to in their shifts as the only solution to overcome this crisis.”<\/p>\n
They have also warned of general “physical exhaustion” and the fatigue and frustration they feel at the conditions in which they are forced to work.<\/p>\n
In addition, they added, in line with what happens in other sectors, and despite the context of the need for professionals, the group suffers a high degree of job insecurity that generates a lack of stability at work and discomfort in the face of this uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Regarding the “limit” situation of the health services of the Balearic Islands, they emphasize the canceled surgeries and delays in consultations that “affect the precocity of diagnoses and treatments that can be decisive in the evolution of the patients”, as well as “the collapse of primary care\u201d, which they describe as \u201cthe mainstay of the system\u201d and which already affects users.<\/p>\n