The Minister of Health, Fernando Domínguez, chaired this morning the meeting with the agents that make up the Sanfermines health device that are coordinating for health care during the running of the bulls and in other situations specific to the festivities. In addition to the Minister of Health, the manager of the Navarre Health Service – Osasunbidea, the manager of the University Hospital of Navarra and part of the management team, the manager of Primary Care, of the Hospital Emergency Services, the deputy director of Extra-hospital Emergencies, representatives of the General Directorate of the Interior, the General Directorate of Communication, the Citizen Security Area of the Pamplona / Iruña City Council, the DYA, the Red Cross and the Bullring infirmary attended the coordination meeting of the special device for Sanfermines 2024.
The Minister Domínguez has recalled that, although the operation is special due to the large influx of people in Pamplona and the surrounding area and involves multiple organisations, the health system “will continue to attend to all the care that arises outside the festivities as normal”. To this end, teams have been reinforced and some circuits have been reorganised, especially during the running of the bulls. The Department of Health recommends that the population, in the event of requiring health care during the upcoming Sanfermines, go to their health centre (working days from 08:00 to 15:00 hours), and outside of these hours use the extra-hospital emergency services at the Dr. San Martín and Buztintxuri centres, leaving the hospital ones for the most serious cases.
New this year is the opening of a second First Aid Unit in Plaza de Recoletas, which will join the one installed every year at the Vázquez de Mella school.
The Department of Health promotes more efficient use of public health services through the appropriate use of available resources, so that all citizens receive the best possible care and the health system operates smoothly and efficiently.
Health centres open from 8am to 3pm, Monday to Friday
As regards the Primary Care network, the health centres in Pamplona and the surrounding area will be open from Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 15:00 (they will be closed on the 6th and 7th, 13th and 14th because it is the weekend). Specifically, the health centres offering this care during the holidays are all those in Pamplona (Azpilagaña, Buztintxuri, Casco Viejo, Txantrea, Etxabakoitz, Ermitagaña, II Ensanche, Iturrama, Lezkairu, Mendillorri, Milagrosa, Rochapea, San Jorge and San Juan), as well as Ansoáin / Antsoain, Aranguren, Barañáin / Barañain I and II, Berriozar, Burlada / Burlata, Sarriguren, Villava / Atarrabia and Zizur Mayor / Zizur Nagusia.
Outpatient Emergency Service
Outside the opening hours of health centres, emergencies will be handled by the Extra-hospital Emergency Service (SUE) at the following centres:
– Buztintxuri-Pamplona Norte (Avda. Guipúzcoa, 39): adult care, every working day, between 3:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., and on July 6, 7, 13 and 14, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
– Dr. San Martín Outpatient Clinic (C/ San Fermín, 29): will be open for adult emergencies 24 hours a day, every day of the festivities, without interruption from 3:00 p.m. on Friday, July 5, until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, July 15. Remembering that non-urgent care will be provided at its health centers on weekdays and that morning care at this center will be left for those derived from the bull runs, care derived from the festivities and foreigners.
For paediatric care, on weekdays between 8:00 and 15:00 hours, you must contact the health centre. The San Martín centre will attend to paediatric emergencies on weekdays between 15:00 and 20:00 hours, and between 08:00 and 20:00 hours on 6, 7, 13 and 14 July.
The telephone assistance with the nursing advice service (948 290 290) remains active every day, working days and holidays, during its usual hours from 08:00 to 22:00, 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.
Special device for enclosures
The special care arrangement for injured people during the running of the bulls will consist of nine health care posts at the foot of the fence, with medical staff, nurses and lifeguards, as well as another eight support points with lifeguards, in addition to the Plaza’s own infirmary. The running of the bulls has a length of 848 metres and will thus have a health care point approximately every 50 metres. The entire care arrangement 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 medical ambulances along the route of the bull run, two of which are on standby in the Plaza del Castillo, to be transferred from the 112-SOS Navarra Centre to any point along the route that requires more medical transport. This assistance system 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.
Attention in the Chupinazo: Multiple Victim Incident Device
On July 6, on the occasion of the Chupinazo, there will be several health care centers: in Santo Domingo (Department of Education), in the church of San Saturnino and in Paseo Sarasate-Diputación.
These posts, set up in collaboration with the Red Cross, DYA and the Navarre Health Service-Osasunbidea, will attend to health needs arising from bumps and bruises, cuts from glass and other minor pathologies that can occur in the crowding that occurs at the event that kicks off the festivities.
This device will be attended by a medical professional, three nurses, first aiders, one advanced life support (ALS) ambulance, one advanced nursing life support (ALS) ambulance, five basic life support (BLS) ambulances and two support vehicles.
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 organization of this device is based on having all the necessary resources to deal with any extraordinary health incident located in the same place, so that all of them can move to the most suitable place depending on the emergency situation.
All the personnel planned for this extraordinary operation will be concentrated in the car park located in front of the main entrance of the Department of Education on Cuesta de Santo Domingo, for which the necessary space closest to the exit to Cuesta de Santo Domingo will be marked off. At this point, on the part of the Government of Navarra’s resources, a Fire Service vehicle with a person in charge, a Mobile UVI ambulance and an IMV van will be concentrated. All of this will be coordinated at a health level by the SNS-O Emergency Department.
Likewise, the Red Cross will place a truck on Avenida Carlos III/Calle Roncesvalles to intervene in incidents involving multiple victims, as requested by the Civil Protection Board.
First aid units at the Vázquez de Mella school and, for the first time, also at the Plaza de Recoletas
This year, and as a novelty, two first care units (UPA) will be set up by the Red Cross to treat minor illnesses specific to the festival: one, as every year, at the Vázquez de Mella school (entrance C/ Olite) and a second in the Plaza de Recoletas.
The opening hours of the UPA at Colegio de Vázquez de Mella will be from 9:00 p.m. on July 5 to 9:00 a.m. on July 8; and from 9:00 p.m. on July 12 to 9:00 a.m. on July 15. The UPA at Recoletas will be open on July 8, 9, 11, 13 and 14, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. In addition, this UPA will be open during special hours on July 6 (Chupinazo), July 7 (procession), July 10 (children’s offering) and July 12 (seniors’ offering), from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
Initial care will be provided at these two points and, where appropriate, patients with more serious conditions will be referred to the Dr. San Martín Centre or the HUN.
Information on people injured during the running of the bulls and the festivities
To provide information on the injured people transferred to the University Hospital of Navarra as a result of the bull run and the progress of those injured in previous days, a press room has been set up on the second floor of the HUN Emergency building (access via the side door next to the ambulance parking lot).
Accredited journalists who wish to do so will be able to follow the running of the bulls live in the same press room every day from 8:00 a.m. on a television screen located there. In addition, daily, medical personnel from the HUN will offer information at two times: one, at 8:20 a.m., which will consist of an initial report on the injured people who have been there that morning and are on their way to the centre, therefore, it will be an initial assessment of them; and a daily press conference at 9:00 a.m., in which all the information will be offered about the injured people that day who have already been seen by the HUN professionals and the progress of the people admitted in previous days. This information will be published after midday on the festival website, the link to which will be shared on the Government of Navarra’s social networks. Any media requests unrelated to this information will be managed during the festivals by the International Press Office.