09/07/2020 - 10:51
Clarín.com
Society
The Parque residence, a private nursing home in the Cordovan town of Cosquín, is plagued with cases of coronavirus.
According to the authorities,
some 54 people tested positive
and the results of more swabs are still awaiting.
But that's not the worst: the Cordovan government and PAMI
local fight to see who takes over.
"We are really in a desperate situation," said the lawyer for the residence, Julián Basaldúa, who remarked that, given the contagion of 11 employees and six others who were preventively isolated, it is difficult for them to contain all the patients.
This situation, according to the legal representative, was communicated to the Cordovan government, but "the COE is on the position that it
is the social work and we
who have to take charge," he remarked in statements to
Channel 12
of Córdoba.
In this regard, Basaldúa said: "What the province sent us is that when there is a positive it has to be transferred to a Covid center and once the discharge is obtained it has to return to the nursing home. But we have not had that response, only that They are going to send us sanitizing items. "
The Parque residence, in Cosquín, with 54 positive cases of coronavirus.
"They say that they will be in contact with PAMI
to see what can be done
, but the truth is that we do not have answers and we need the residents to be transferred, because in a nursing home many times people are confused and believe that it is like a clinic "he added.
For its part, the provincial government responded and assured that "all residents are affiliated with the PAMI social work" so "this is the provider that
should provide care
to the institution's patients," according to Cadena 3.
"In the event that PAMI cannot guarantee the correct care of its affiliates, it must reliably notify the Province, so that the Ministry of Health intervenes guaranteeing their care," he added.
Of the total of infected in the geriatric,
43 are residents of the place
.
In a statement, the Córdoba Emergency Operations Center explained that "apparatus and complex equipment were also made available to the authorities of the social work to monitor the medical care of the residents" and recalled that "on the 4th and 5th In September the provincial Ministry of Health delivered Personal Protection Items (PPE): 25 N95 chinstraps, 900 heme repellent chinstraps, 1000 gloves, 200 caps, 400 boots, 1 infrared thermometer, gel and liquid alcohol, and medications ".
The residence in which 54 cases of coronavirus were detected in Cosquín.
"The Province is in permanent contact with the social work and permanent supervision of the case is being carried out from the Geriatric Bureau of the COE," he concluded.
On the side of PAMI, meanwhile,
Rubén Ovelar
, head of the entity in the province, assured that "it is not the time to seek responsibilities, but to solve the issue that arises" and warned that they should "have the asymptomatic in residence and , as they have symptoms, transfer them to the clinics. "
So far
only 12 patients have been transferred
and Ovelar explained that this decision is only made when patients "have symptoms."
In turn, he reported that from the PAMI they sent a medical therapist who was in the place "verifying the situation of each patient" and confirmed that "there is a reduction in staff" due to the positive and isolated cases.
The PAMI headquarters, in Córdoba.
For her part, Leticia González, a relative of a resident, told the Carlos Paz Vivo site that at the moment "everything is in the nebula" and that the nursing home sent them a statement saying "that they would be about to appeal to the Province because they do not have the necessary resources".
"It is the poor people who are in the nursing home who do not receive the appropriate care and have great anguish; they are the victims," added the woman.
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