Can Misses Hospital plans to establish its own in vitro fertilisation facility. In addition, there is a Neurosurgery service and a Nuclear Medicine service. This is stated in the ‘Strategic Plan of the Ibiza and Formentera Health Area 2022-2014,’ which was coordinated by Paz Merino, head of Intensive Care Medicine and head of the Patient Safety Unit, and in the preparation of which around forty professionals, both internal and external to the health sector, as well as the management team, took part.
The intention to offer women the option of undergoing in vitro fertilisation without having to fly to Mallorca for part of the process is contained in the first of the document’s nine lines of action, which was officially published before Christmas: ‘Care model and service portfolio.’ The proposal is presented in point number five of this chapter: ‘Expand the laboratory service.’ The latter, which specifies the comprehensive strategy, would take place in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The medical direction and the service of Gynecology and Obstetrics will prepare a report on the feasibility of adopting in vitro fertilisation at Can Misses before March 2022. However, it will not be until the end of 2024 that the Fertility Unit will have its own new room for investigation and testing, thanks to the development of the hospital laboratory.
According to the document, this will be located in the clinical analysis laboratory, which will be outfitted and equipped to accommodate the unit’s private laboratory. Simultaneously and parallel, it is intended to “fit out the physical space of the Microbiology laboratory and equip it to install the Molecular Biology and Microbacteria laboratories.” Users of the Can Misses Fertility Unit who require in vitro fertilisation can currently complete the process almost entirely on the island, though they must travel to Mallorca for egg retrieval and embryo implantation, which would no longer be necessary in most cases if the Health Area included this technique in its portfolio of services.
The same chapter of the public health strategic plan for the next three years envisions taking the first steps toward establishing two additional services in the future: Nuclear Medicine and Neurosurgery. Although both cases anticipate the preparation of reports on the feasibility of Can Misses having them, the Neurosurgery service appears to be closer to becoming a reality.
Misses Nuclear Medicine in Can Misses
To that purpose, the plan specifies that “a proposal for a strategic cooperation with the Hospital Universitario Son Espases to execute the Neurosurgery service” will be finalised by the end of 2023. For some time now, the neurosurgeons of the Comunitat’s reference hospital have been familiar with Can Misses, where they regularly go to see patients, primarily for consultations and revisions of treatments. The Pitiusa Health Area’s goal, which now has an agreement with Policlnica Nuestra Seora del Rosario to attend urgent cases requiring neurosurgery, is to create its own service, for which no date has been determined.
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