Representatives of the British Consulate visited the facilities of the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria.

the HUNSC, through the Social work unit, maintained for years a close collaboration with the British institution in Tenerife.

Spain, February 2013.- Hospital Universitario Ntra. Ms. de Candelaria (HUNSC), affiliated to the Ministry of health of the Government of Canary Islands, has received this week the visit of the Coordinator of the Consular network of United Kingdom of North Africa, Dawn Janet Taylor, who accompanied by Mary Suárez, Pro Consul at the British Consulate in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Tenerife and guided by the social workers of the hospital complexyou could learn the operation and facilities of some areas.

For years, Social work of the HUNSC service and the British Consulate in Tenerife kept closely to the advice to British citizens who have required some form of medical assistance during their stay on the island. This visit is part of the agenda of programmed activities Coordinator during their stay this week in the Canary Islands which will meet, in situ, other institutions which hold different political, social and administrative ties.

Dawn Janet Taylor, Coordinator Consular UK network in North Africa (second left), the HUNSC. social workers

In this sense, the Coordinator of the Area Consular of North Africa for United Kingdom, Dawn Janet Taylor, toured different areas of service of emergency room of the Hospital de La Candelaria, the intensive care units both adults and infants, as well as the Department of Social work, whose professionals could converse and share pleasant printing servicesinfrastructure and medical technology that offers the HUNSC to their patients.

This included explanations of the various units responsible for, thus providing a more comprehensive and contextual activity that takes place on a daily basis in a hospital of third level serving a population of reference that is around 500,000 inhabitants.