Madrid inaugurated the most advanced unit in Europe against Ebola

USPA NEWS - The Central Hospital of Defense Gomez Ulla of Madrid has opened the most advanced unit in Europe for its design and equipment for the control of highly infectious diseases such as Ebola. This is an isolation unit of High-level unprecedented in Europe.

The floor was inaugurated one year after Spain faced the first transmission of Ebola, when the Management Committee Ebola detected the need for a unit of this kind of state ownership. The vice president of the Spanish Government, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, who inaugurated the unit, recognized the important role played by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality in the response given by the Government to the situation in Spain generated by this virus.

After this work, the Hospital became part of the hospital network of serious infections was defined in 2014, which now form 24 hospitals for diagnosis and eight for treatment, including the Gomez Ulla. The portfolio of Health, Social Services and Equality has worked on the reform of this plant, which is available to the NHS. Facilities include ventilation systems and independent water supply, treatment tank wastewater and eight highly insulated rooms. Furthermore, all materials used are of high quality and supports disinfection procedures.

The first suspected case, which resulted in the activation of the 'Protocol of action against suspected cases of Ebola virus Disease', occurred on June 23, 2014 and since then has been investigated 47 suspected cases in thirteen Spanish regions. Currently not follow given to risk any contact. Since then, following this protocol, aircraft have been monitored in a total of 4,305 passengers and 554 crew on 120 flight, with five activations Foreign Health protocol for suspected Ebola. As for the ships, 1,023 were controlled and activated twice that protocol. Also, they have been distributed to travelers around 5,000 flyers about the Ebola virus.

Furthermore, the Coordination Center Alerts Alerts and Health Emergencies (CCAES) under the Ministry of Health, has developed in coordination with regional authorities and NGOs the procedures for monitoring the field cooperating displaced. More than 200 aid workers have moved to the field to participate in the response to the epidemic. This response also meant that health professionals was formed. These courses 1,203 people participated are forced to play training is their regions.

The February 23, 2015, the ISCIII began training on the use of autonomous costumes and using insulation capsules staff network referral hospitals for treatment. This training, which has already been given at the Hospital Carlos III of Madrid and the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, is in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Health. It is preparing the training schedule for the other five hospitals for treatment.