The Minister of Health, Fernando Domínguez, chaired this morning the Meeting with the agents that make up the Sanfermines health system that are coordinated for health care during the confinement and in other situations typical of the holidays. To the coordination meeting of the Special device for Sanfermines 2024 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 health services Hospital emergencythe 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.
Councillor Domínguez recalled 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 attend to all the needs 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 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 these hours, use the out-of-hospital emergencies at the Dr. San Martín and Buztintxuri centers.leaving hospital ones for the most serious cases.
New 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.
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 centers open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., 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 attended to by the Out-of-hospital Emergency Service (SUE) in the following centers:
– Buztintxuri-Pamplona North (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): it will remain open for emergencies for adults 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 workdays and that morning assistance in this center will be left to that derived from confinements, assistance derived from holidays and foreign people.
For the pediatric careon 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 (948 290 290) is active every day, both working days and holidays, during its usual hours of 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., to resolve both health queries and assistance to centers.
As regards the Pamplona and its region’s health transport networkusually made up of four advanced life support ambulances (ALS), four basic life support ambulances (BLS) and a medical helicopter from the Government of Navarra, will be reinforced during the holidays with BLS ambulances, and other support vehicles, ambulances and motorcycles. Red Cross and DYA.
Special device for enclosures
He special care device for people injured in confinement The bull run 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, to which must be added the Plaza’s own infirmary. The bull run has a route of 848 metres and will thus have a health care point approximately every 50 meters. The entire care device will be coordinated from the 112-SOS Navarra Center.
These positions will be located in the start of the Cuesta de Santo Domingo (headquarters of the Department of Education), Stairs of the Museum of Navarra, Plaza de Santiago (back of City Hall), San Saturnino stairs, Town Hall (2), Merchants (2), Javier Descent (2), Espoz and Mina Crossing, Tejería, Duke of Ahumada, Labrit Descent, Amaya (“Telefónica” or south alley), Hemingway (north alley) and Bullring.
The medical transport device has 16 medicalizable ambulances Along the route of the bull run, two of these will be on standby 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 Red Cross (100), DYA (30) and Navarrese Health Service-Osasunbidea (9 professionals: 5 from medicine and 4 from nursing), who will carry out health care from the care stations themselves and the transfer by ambulance to the HUN from the sector that will be assigned to them, providing real-time information to the Coordinating Center 112 of SOS Navarra on the wounds and injuries of the people treated.
He SOS Navarra Coordinating Center 112 The 112-SOS Navarra hospital will be responsible for organising healthcare and referring injured people to various health 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 6th, on the occasion of the 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 (MVI) 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 resources necessary to attend to any extraordinary health incident located at the same point, in such a way that all of them can travel to the most suitable place depending on the emergency situation.
All the troops planned for 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 closest to the exit towards Cuesta de Santo Domingo will be delimited. 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.
In addition, Red Cross will place a truck on Carlos III Avenue/ Roncesvalles Street to intervene in Multiple Victim Incidents, as requested by the Civil Protection Board.
First care units in the Vazquez 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 Vázquez de Mella College It 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.
At these two points, initial attention will be offered and, where appropriate, patients who present a more serious condition They will be referred to the Dr. San Martín Center or the HUN.
Information on people injured during the running of the bulls and the festivities
To report on the injured people transferred to the University Hospital of Navarra derived from the confinement and the evolution of injuries from previous days, a press room has been set up on the second floor of the HUN Emergency Building (access through the side door next to the ambulance parking).
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.