Son Espases, collapsed after the DANA: more than 60 patients waiting for a room

PalmaThe Son Espases University Hospital has accumulated more than 60 patients pending admission this Tuesday, a situation that the center attributes to the consequences of the DANA and Monday's rainfall in Mallorca. At 3:00 PM, data from the IB-Salut Transparency Portal recorded 161 people waiting to be attended to in the emergency department of the islands' reference hospital.

Sources from Son Espases have explained that the alerts activated on Monday due to the storm meant that many people did not travel to the hospital. This likely caused an accumulation of patients this Tuesday, coinciding with the return to activity after the weekend.

"Normally, Monday activity is already complicated, because people do not go to the emergency room during the weekend," hospital center sources have pointed out.

In this context, the hospital has highlighted that the opening of the Verge de la Salut hospital, with 34 beds, has contributed to freeing up space at Son Espases. The center expects that the situation will stabilize during the coming hours.

Son Espases attends to an average of 450 people daily in the emergency room, of which approximately 10% end up being admitted. The hospital considers that the accumulation recorded today was "expected" due to the combination of the rainfall and the return to habitual activity after the weekend, and they insist that the situation is set to improve soon.