The Torero La Paz Health Center resumes consultations on Monday after the storm

The Torero La Paz Health Center will resume normal care activity on Monday, after suspending face-to-face consultations last Friday due to Damage to the building after the severe storm That broke out on Thursday afternoon in Zaragoza.

The heavy rain caused the suspended ceiling of the building to leak, causing some landslides, which led to the medical consultations located in Upstairs. Due to the condition of the center, scheduled appointments were cancelled, although specialists contacted patients by phone and appointments were kept. Unforgettable emergencies and consultations on the street floor. The nursing staff was assigned two rooms and kept all treatments and scheduled appointments between them all, so the nursing care work was not paralyzed.

From the middle they remember that on Thursday, after the great storm and the chaos it caused, there were very difficult moments. He greeted the team that was working that afternoon Patients who came with holes, bruises, bare feet and covered in mud. “It was a very difficult situation,” they summarize. They were experiencing moments of “a lot of uncertainty”. They say a young man had to be taken to hospital after arriving dizzy and without clothes after being swept away by the current.

The coordinator of the Torero La Paz Health Center, Isabel Ibarrondo, explained that the cleaning tasks were quickly activated from the health department. Work continued on Saturday morning. To enable space and resume consultations normally. However, the roof has not yet been repaired, but the activity will resume from Monday, pending completion of the repair.

Friday, remember, it was a “a complicated day”. Patients who had to go to the center were called in case the appointment was late. “People understood the situation,” he says. In the event that the disease required immediate attention, they went to the center.

From the neighboring Parque Venecia Association, they also recommended residents through social networks Not going to the clinic, as part of the roof of the second floor has collapsed, leaving that floor unusable.

Storm affected Several health centers From the capital of Aragon, like Almozara and San José, with leaks and floods, although aid activity can continue. Lightning that struck the joint building between the Ramón y Cajal Specialist Center and the Puerta del Carmen Health Center, on Paseo de María Agustín, left several technical services out of order. The medical office in Cuarte de Huerva suffered from flooding, as noted in a video on Twitter, which showed how water gushed out of bathroom sinks or toilets. There was also a water leak in the emergency room.