The Health Minister of the Generalitat, Olga Pané, today visited the expansion of the surgical block of the Mataró Hospital (Maresme), an action that will increase the number of interventions and improve health care for Maresme users. The mayor of Mataró, David Bote, and the manager of the Barcelona Metropolitan North Health Region, Candela Calle, accompanied the councilor.
With these works, the Mataró Hospital adds two new high-tech operating rooms and now has a surgical block with a total of 11 operating rooms. With these new facilities, it will be possible to carry out a thousand more interventions per year to meet the current needs of the territory, reduce waiting lists and improve the operating efficiency of the surgical area, providing more operating rooms for emergency interventions. The Hospital plans to close 2024 with 12,200 surgical interventions.
The oncohematological day hospital
“The two new operating rooms are magnificent facilities that will allow the Mataró Hospital to increase surgical capacity,” explained the counselor. “Both the surgical block and the new resuscitation and non-admission surgery spaces are part of a much-needed expansion,” said Pané, who also wanted to congratulate the center’s professionals for maintaining activity during the works.
Along with the expansion of the surgical block, the Mataró Hospital has built a new Non-Admission Surgery Unit (UCSI) and a new resuscitation and pre-anesthesia room. The new UCSI has 400 m2 and a total of 26 care points (17 seats and 9 beds). Likewise, the new resuscitation room increases its capacity to up to 26 care points. The UCSI of the Mataró Hospital was created in 1994 and became the third major outpatient surgery unit (CMA) in Catalonia. Currently, the Hospital is a benchmark in this area and three out of every four interventions are performed without admission (outpatientization rate of 74%).
New operating rooms at the Mataró Hospital.
During her visit to the Mataró Hospital, Minister Pané also visited the oncohematological day hospital, inaugurated in May 2023. It has 500 m2 and has 18 seats and 4 individual boxes for the administration of chemotherapy, hematological treatments and others. In addition, it is equipped with 4 medical consultations, its own waiting room, a clinical research room and other work spaces.
New spaces in the surgical department of the Mataró Hospital.
The conditions of this space provide cancer patients and their families with a more private, comfortable and quiet environment than the previous day hospital. Thus, patients are not in shared areas but in individual areas, with room for a companion, an individual television, piped music, and shelves to store personal belongings.
The surgical block and the oncohematological day hospital are the most important actions of the partial renovation project of the Mataró Hospital, which began in 2021 and has involved a total investment of 15 million euros (construction and equipment) financed by the Catalan Service of Health.
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