Lack of human talent in healthcare

When City Hospital Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal, basic human talent was very wisely planned so that it could be used optimally. There are currently harsh realities in Panama that are not being addressed: delays in operations (operation dates next year); and Panamanians suffer from cancers that are not operated on early or from pain that can only be removed by surgery, because there are no instrument operators and circulators to optimize the large number of inaugurated operating rooms. We all know someone who has been in surgery for over 3 months.

Surgical instrumentation is defined as health care personnel trained to assist surgeons during surgery and responsible for planning, organizing, and applying their knowledge of instruments, equipment, and medical supplies during surgery. He is responsible for the preparation of surgical medical technology and consumables for each of the planned surgical specialties, as well as for the sterilization of clothing. surgical, instruments and medical-surgical devices.

The training of surgical instruments was initially structured at the technical level, and despite the rapid changes in surgery in recent decades, due to the development of technologies, this training has developed at the technological level; Therefore, the Panamanian state must regulate its implementation. Instrumentalists took on responsibilities with knowledge in accordance with their historical moment and at that time of Panamanian medicine, it was one of surgical robots, have the ability of the state to protect, regulate their professional training and practice.

Imagine being on an airplane where the pilots and co-pilots are surgeons, the air traffic controllers are the nursing team, and the surgical debridement and circulation pump technicians are the cabin crew: they are responsible for maintaining cabin balancing during the flight and quick problem solving, timely and simple for any eventuality while the surgeon is operating.

Those who are legally responsible for the safe boarding and disembarkation of passengers from the aircraft are the pilots, those who are responsible for the safe take off and landing of several aircraft at the same time at the airport and assisting the aircraft on the radar are the air traffic controllers and what is discussed in current events in the National Assembly iis the academic entry profile that implementers must have surgical to be able to work in Panamanian operating rooms.

At this moment there are many new and large planes, many pilots trained for them, and what is missing to start this entire infrastructure is that they require cabin crew to have an air traffic controller degree. Paradoxically, custodial work is reserved as exclusive, which causes a technical monopoly of the state.

Advances in science and health technologies have marked a fundamental trend for the development of specialists in surgical instruments in South America and their skills such as: surgical assistance in surgery rooms and specialized offices, management of sterilization centers, administration and management in the areas of their competence, consulting and training of medical and surgical aids.

A license is more than a formality that gives the authority to practice a profession, and in the case of instrumentation, it is the surgeon who during the surgical act follows the skills formed for the safe and timely performance of the surgical procedure. We must stand up for the common interests of Panamanians and guarantee a sufficient number of staff to satisfy the practices on time. Consider the opinion of the pilots, their flight hours and their black boxes for the benefit of the Panamanian people. The surgeon’s representative was not allowed to speak in the National Assembly during the debate on the Instrumentation Act, and we as a country urgently need someone who will instrument us.