Built in 2021, an annex to the Moisés Broggi remains empty and unused.

In 2021, in the midst of a pandemic, Catalonia inaugurated five buildings annexed to five other large hospitals, in principle to increase the number of beds and services, especially for the seriously ill.

The hospitals were Bellvitge Hospital, Germans Trias i Pujol (popularly known as Can Ruti, in Badalona), the Arnau de Vilanova (Lleida), the Pere i Virgili (Barcelona) and the Moises Broggi (Sant Joan Despi). But the latter is currently empty and does not take care of any patients, for lack of medical personnel.

And it is that the drop in both cases of flu and covid has not managed to decongest the hospital, according to medical sources explained to this newspaper, in the emergencies of the Broggi these days there were nurses who carried 22 patients each in the A&E department.

It is precisely those patients, who should be transferred to a ward, who cannot and have to wait in the emergency department. And all this while the Broggi Satellite Hospitalwhich was built in 2021 to decongest the covid, remains completely empty and without patients, for lack of sufficient staff.

Unions and doctors had already warned at the time of the lack of doctors and nurses, no matter how many satellite hospitals are built. That there was no point building new infrastructure if there were no hands. And that is precisely what is happening.

In this episode, we talk to El Periódico journalist Beatriz Pérez, health and health issues specialist.

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