Los Reyes inaugurated the new hospital of Móstoles, the eleventh post underway by the Government of Aguirre.

el Hospital King Juan Carlos will have the latest cutting edge technology in medicine.

-Came into operation last Thursday 22 and all the services of the Centre will be operating in three weeks

– 260 individual rooms, 47 queries, ten operating rooms and 78 jobs emergency

-account with a smart surgery with the Da Vinci robot and the latest medical technology for the diagnosis of cancer

Madrid, April 2012.- their Majesties the Kings, accompanied by the President of the community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, inaugurated the Hospital King Juan Carlos de Móstoles, which will become the eleventh hospital put in place under the mandate of Aguirre. Health is a priority for the Government of the community of Madrid in recent years. Because health is a precious asset for citizens, those responsible politicians must contribute to preserve it at all times ”, highlighted the regional President.

The community of Madrid has made available to locals eleven new hospitals since 2003, including the opened today. Eight of them were opened last term: of the Henares, Infanta Leonor, the Puerta de Hierro – Majadahonda, Infanta Sofia, Infanta Elena and Infanta Cristina, the Tagus and the Southeast. This set must be added from 2011, Hospital Gómez Ulla, Torrejón Hospital and the hospital King Juan Carlos. Also after the summer, will be operational in Collado Villalba hospital with what will be 12 hospitals set up by the regional government in the last 9 years.

Even with the serious economic crisis which passes through Spain, – noted Aguirre – the Government of the community of Madrid makes is in his hand that the Madrid health remains a model of excellence, innovation and proximity to all. ”

Health Centre will feature 260 single roomsconsultations 47, 10 posts of medical day hospital and 12 posts of dialysis. In the surgical area, you will have 10 operating theatres. By the same token, will have 32 cabinets of exploration, 78 jobs urgent care, 21 rooms of Radiology, 10 jobs neonatology and 18 posts of UCI.

The new hospital King Juan Carlos will give health coverage to about 180,000 inhabitants of 18 municipalities (Móstoles, Navalcarnero, scaffold of glass, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Villa del Prado, Navas del Rey, Villaviciosa de Odón, Cenicientos, Rozas of Port Royal, dam Pelayos, village of Fresno, Sevilla la Nueva, Villamanta, Villamantilla, Villanueva de Perales)(, Chapinería, Colmenar de Arroyo and the Alamo), although with the implementation in the Madrid health of free choice, any citizen may, if desired, be cared for in this Center.

Two hospitals in Móstoles

The regional President stressed that Móstoles is the first Madrid City that, beyond the capital, will have two public hospitals: Hospital General de Móstoles, which has given excellent service at all times and is going to continue, and the Hospital King Juan Carlos, which now opens its doors. ”

Centre has an investment of more than 232 million euros, and is located between the plaza de toros and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, with easy access by motorway A-5, and will have the latest technologies, both health information and telecommunications. It has an area of 95,000 square meters.

Also, its portfolio of services includes medical, surgical, maternal child and Central.

In the same way, it will feature cutting-edge technology. Thus, it will have a latest generation intelligent operating room called Da Vinci.

With the incorporation of this equipment to the new center of Móstoles, they will be two, along with the Clínico San Carlos, public hospitals with these robotic surgery devices.

The Da Vinci robot is a device designed by NASA engineers, who originally developed to perform operations on oil rigs, situations of war or for space stations, and finally had a medical application.

Robotic surgery has the advantage to be practiced a minimal incision, that the vision that has the operating surgeon is three-dimensional, whereas in laparoscopic surgery, is two-dimensional.

On the other hand, the hospital King Juan Carlos will also feature latest technology for the diagnosis of cancer, that will feature a PET-TAC. This diagnostic tool allows to detect all kinds of tumors, to children and unidentified primary tumors because it combines the emission of Positron tomography (PET) with the Computerizada Axial Tomography (TAC).

Advanced sanitation

East PET-TAC joins the other seven that are already working in other public hospitals in the region – La Paz, the clinical, Puerta de Hierro – Majadahonda, Doce de Octubre, Getafe, Marañón and Fuenlabrada. The community of Madrid offers the largest ratio of Europe of public equipment of this type per million inhabitants. This equipment will be installed in the service of Nuclear Medicine, along with a gamma camera SPECT-CT.

The radiodiagnostic service will feature two TAC (Tomografía Axial Computerizada) and two MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). In addition, the hospital will have, in total, 14 scanners in cardiology, Gineobstetricia and other areas. In addition, radiation oncology service will feature a linear accelerator and a microselectron.

To fully operational in 3 weeks

Hospital King Juan Carlos will gradually open its doors in three weeks. Tomorrow will begin to run queries and radiology and the next day the extractions. Friday 30 major outpatient surgery and ICU; on April 2 the day hospital, Monday 9 scheduled hospitalization and surgery with income and finally on April 12 emergencies and hospitalization and the obstetric block.

The hospital will have 1,053 employees among which there are 215 doctors, 648 nurses and other health professionals. Hospital King Juan Carlos is one of the three new hospitals in Madrid launches this legislature, joining Torrejón, already in operation and to the Collado Villalba, under construction.