The Minister of Health, Fernando Domínguez, chaired the meeting this morning with the members of the Sanfermines health system who coordinate health care during the running of the bulls and in other situations typical of the festivities. The coordination meeting of the special device for Sanfermines 2024 was attended, in addition to the Minister of Health, by the manager of the Navarrese Health Service – Osasunbidea, the manager of the University Hospital of Navarra and part of the management team, the manager of Primary Care, 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 infirmary from the Bullring.
Councilor Domínguez recalled that, although the device is special due to the large influx of people in Pamplona and the region and involves multiple organizations, the health system “will continue to attend normally to all the attention that arises outside of the festivities.” To achieve this, teams have been reinforced and some circuits have been reorganized, especially during the confinement. The Department of Health recommends that the population, if they require health care during the next Sanfermines, go to their health center (weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.), and outside of those hours use the out-of-hospital emergencies at the Dr. San Martín and Buztintxuri centers, leaving hospital emergencies for the most serious cases.
New this year, there will be a second First Care Unit in the 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
Regarding the Primary Care network, the health centers in Pamplona and the region will be open from Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (the 6th and 7th, 13th and 14th will be closed due to the weekend). of week). Specifically, the health centers with 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 ), in addition to 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 remain open for adult emergencies 24 hours a day, every day of the festivities, uninterruptedly from 3:00 p.m. on Friday, July 5, until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, the 15th. Remembering that non-urgent care will be provided in its health centers on work days and that morning care in this center will be left to care derived from the confinements, care derived from the holidays and foreign people.
For pediatric care, on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. you must contact the health center. The San Martín center will attend to pediatric emergencies on weekdays between 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 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 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 positions will be located at the beginning of the Cuesta de Santo Domingo (headquarters of the Department of Education), stairs of the Museum of Navarra, Plaza de Santiago (back of 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 device has 16 medicalizable ambulances along the route of the bull run, two of these at a checkpoint in the Plaza del Castillo, to refer them from the 112-SOS Navarra Center to that route point that requires more medical transport. This assistance device will be staffed by a minimum of eight medical professionals, eight nursing professionals, 21 transportation technicians, 47 lifeguards, nine communication workers and eight position 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 SOS Navarra 112 Coordinating Center will be in charge of organizing health care and referring injured people to the various health centers so that the most seriously ill are the first to reach the HUN, or the center determined by 112. SOS Navarra. Therefore, as already established in previous years, the transfer of minor patients already treated at the foot of the fence will be carried out once the most serious patients have been evacuated to the hospital.
Attention in Chupinazo: Multiple Victim Incidents device
On July 6, on the occasion of Chupinazo, there will be several health care posts: in Santo Domingo (Department of Education), in the church of San Saturnino and in Paseo Sarasate-Diputación.
These posts, installed in collaboration with the Red Cross, DYA and the Navarrese Health Service-Osasunbidea, will attend to the health needs derived from bumps and bruises, cuts with glass and other minor pathologies that can occur in the crowding that occurs at the event. kicks off the festivities.
This device will be staffed by a medical professional, three nursing professionals, lifeguards, one advanced life support ambulance (ALS), one advanced nursing life support (SVAE), five basic life support ambulances (BLS) and two support vehicles.
There will also be a device called Multiple Casualty Incidents (MIV) to provide an out-of-hospital response in the event of an event that generates a higher number of simultaneous patients than usual, 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 troops provided for in this extraordinary device will be concentrated in the parking lot located in front of the main door of the Department of Education on Cuesta de Santo Domingo, for which the necessary space will be delimited and closest to the exit towards Cuesta de Santo Domingo. . At this point, through the resources of the Government of Navarra, a Fire Service vehicle with a person in charge, a Mobile UVI ambulance and an IMV van will be concentrated. All of this is coordinated at the health level by the Emergency Subdirectorate of the SNS-O.
Likewise, the Red Cross will place a truck on Avenida Carlos III/ Calle Roncesvalles to intervene in Multiple Victim Incidents, as requested by the Civil Protection Board.
First-care units at the Vázquez de Mella school and, for the first time, also in the Plaza de Recoletas
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 in Plaza de Recoletas.
The schedule of the UPA of Colegio de Vázquez de Mella will be from July 5 at 9:00 p.m. until 9:00 a.m. on the 8th; and from the 12th at 9:00 p.m. until July 15 at 9:00 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 (adult 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 about people injured in 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. through a television screen located there. In addition, daily, HUN medical personnel will offer information at two times: one, at 8:20 a.m., which will consist of a first preview of the injured people who were injured that morning and are on their way to the center, therefore, it will be a first evaluation of them; and a daily press conference at 9:00 a.m., in which all the information will be offered about the injured people of that day who have already been seen by HUN professionals and the evolution of the people admitted in previous days. . This information will be published after noon on the festival website, whose link will be shared on the social networks of the Government of Navarra. Any media requests unrelated to this information will be managed during the holidays by the International Press Office.