The Minister of Health of the Government of Navarra, Fernando Domínguez, chaired this Monday a meeting with the agents that make up the Sanfermines 2024 health device that are coordinated for health care during the confinement and in other situations typical of the holidays.
Councillor Domínguez has pointed out that, although the device is special due to the large influx of people in Pamplona and the region and involves multiple organisations, the health system “will continue to handle any requests that arise outside of the festivities as normal.” To achieve this, teams have been reinforced and some circuits have been reorganized, especially during the confinement.
The Health Department of the Government of Navarra recommends that the population, if they require health care during the Sanfermines 2024, go to their health center (working days from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.), and outside of these hours use the extra-hospital emergency services of the Dr. San Martín and Buztintxuri centers, leaving the hospital ones for the most serious cases.
BesidesAs a novelty this year, there will be a second First Care Unit in the Plaza de Recoletaswhich will join the one that is installed every year at the Vázquez de Mella school.
Health centres opening hours
As regards the Primary Care network, the health centres in Pamplona and the surrounding area areThey will be open from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (they will be closed on the 6th, 7th, 13th and 14th because it is the weekend). Specifically, the health centres offering this care during the festivities are all those in Pamplona, as well as Ansoáin, Aranguren, Barañáin I and II, Berriozar, Burlada, Sarriguren, Villava and Zizur Mayor.
Outside the opening hours of health centres, emergencies will be handled by the Extra-hospital Emergency Service (SUE).
In the center of Buztintxuri-Pamplona Norte (Avenida Guipúzcoa, 39), adult care will be provided every weekday, between 3 and 10 p.m., and July 6, 7, 13 and 14, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The Dr. San Martín Outpatient Clinic (C/ San Fermín, 29) will remain open for adult emergencies 24 hours a day, every day of the holidays,uninterrupted from 3 p.m. on Friday, July 5, until 8 a.m. on Monday, July 15. Non-urgent care will be provided at health centres on working days and morning care at this centre will be reserved for those resulting from the bull runs, assistance resulting from the festivities and foreigners.
For pediatric care, on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. you must contact the health center. The San Martín center will attend to pediatric emergencies on weekdays between 3 and 8 p.m., and between 8 and 8 p.m. on July 6, 7, 13 and 14.
The telephone assistance with the nursing advice service (948 290 290) remains active every day, working days and holidays, during its usual hours from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., to resolve both health queries and assistance to centers.
As regards the medical transport network in Pamplona and its region, which is usually made up of four advanced life support (ALS) ambulances, four basic life support (BLS) ambulances and a medical helicopter from the Government of Navarre, it will be reinforced during the festivities with BLS ambulances and other support vehicles, ambulances and motorcycles from the Red Cross and DYA.
Device of the enclosures
The special care device for people injured in the running of the bulls will be made up of nine health care posts at the foot of the fence, with medical, nursing and lifeguard personnel, as well as another eight support points with lifeguards, to which we must add the Plaza’s own infirmary. The bull run is 848 metres long and will therefore have a health care point approximately every 50 metres. The entire support system will be coordinated from the 112-SOS Navarra Centre.
These stands will be located at the beginning of Cuesta de Santo Domingo (headquarters of the Department of Education), stairs of the Museum of Navarra, Plaza de Santiago (behind the Town Hall), stairs of San Saturnino, Town Hall (2), Mercaderes (2), Bajada de Javier (2), Travesía de Espoz y Mina, Tejería, Duque de Ahumada, Bajada de Labrit, Amaya (“Telefónica” or south alley), Hemingway (north alley) and Plaza de Toros.
The medical transport system has 16 medicalizable ambulancesAlong the route of the bull run, two of these will be used as a checkpoint in the Plaza del Castillo, to direct them from the 112-SOS Navarra Centre to any point along the route that requires more medical transport. This assistance device will be staffed by a minimum of eight medical professionals, eight nursing professionals, 21 transport technicians, 47 lifeguards, nine communication workers and eight post coordinators.
Care along the route will be provided with resources and health and support personnel from the Red Cross (100), DYA (30) and the Navarre Health Service-Osasunbidea (9 professionals: 5 in medicine and 4 in nursing), who will carry out health care from the care posts themselves and the transfer by ambulance to the HUN from the sector assigned to them, providing real-time information to the SOS Navarra 112 Coordinating Center about the wounds and injuries of the people treated.
The 112 SOS Navarra Coordinating Centre will be responsible for organising healthcare and referring injured people to the various healthcare centres so that the most seriously injured are the first to arrive at the HUN, or to the centre determined by 112-SOS Navarra. Therefore, as was established in previous years, the transfer of those with minor injuries already treated at the foot of the fence will take place once the most seriously injured have been evacuated to the hospital.
Chupinazo device
On July 6th, on the occasion of the chupinazo, there will be several health care posts. They will be located in Santo Domingo (Department of Education), in the church of San Saturnino and on the Paseo de Sarasate-Diputación.
There will also be a device called Multiple Victim Incidents (IMV) to provide an extra-hospital response in the event of an event that generates a higher than usual number of simultaneous patients, which will be located in the parking lot of the Department of Education.
The Red Cross will also place a truck at the intersection of Avenida Carlos III and Roncesvalles to respond to incidents involving multiple victims, as requested by the Civil Protection Board.
This year, and as a novelty, Two first care units (UPA) will be enabled by the Red Cross to care for minor pathologies typical of the festival.one, like every year, at the Vázquez de Mella school (entrance C/ Olite) and a second one in the Plaza de Recoletas.
The schedule of the UPA of Colegio de Vázquez de Mella will be from July 5 at 9 p.m. until 9 a.m. on the 8th; and from the 12th at 9 p.m. until July 15 at 9 a.m. For its part, the Recoletas UPA will open on the 8th, 9th, 11th, 13th and 14th, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. In addition, this UPA will open during special hours, on July 6 (chupinazo), 7 (procession), 10 (children’s offering) and July 12 (senior offering), from 10 a.m. to 6 a.m.