The Castelló General Hospital has tendered for over 570,000 euros the maintenance service of the electron accelerator, essential equipment for the future Intraoperative Radiotherapy Unit. This process represents one of the final requirements from the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) before the unit's launch.

The installation of this medical equipment requires a complex authorization process regulated by the CSN, which includes a series of deadlines and prior controls to ensure its use in accordance with current regulations. The processing has been initiated by the hospital's current management team and the Conselleria de Sanitat, after the apparatus was acquired during the previous legislature without the necessary planning for its operational start-up.

Currently, and after obtaining the CSN's approval for the commissioning phase, the electron accelerator has been transferred to the Hospital Provincial de Castelló. There, the necessary tests and adjustments will be carried out to verify and calibrate its correct functioning in the special radiotherapy bunker, a room equipped for these ionizing radiation measurements.

Once this phase is completed, the equipment will return to the surgical block of the Castelló General Hospital. Subsequently, the inspection date by the Nuclear Safety Council is awaited, which will issue the notification for its start-up. The installed accelerator is a mobile unit designed for intraoperative radiotherapy, administering ionizing radiation directly to the tumor bed during surgery, thus avoiding irradiation of healthy tissues. Its use is indicated in oncological breast and gynecological processes.