08/08/2021 4:36 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 08/08/2021 4:36 PM
In the last 50 years, the life expectancy of human beings
grew by 14 years
, according to data from
the World Bank
.
Thus, the last decade started with optimism about the future of health, until
Covid 19 appeared
.
Science and technology gave a quick response like never before.
But today it is necessary to
rethink the scenario.
That is the topic that will be discussed at the table
"The Challenge of Health"
, organized by
Clarín
and that will be held this Monday. The Minister of Health of the City,
Fernán Quirós
, will participate together with
Eduardo López
(infectologist, member of the Advisory Council of the Nation on Covid 19),
Luis Fontana
(General Director of OSDE),
Virginia Ungar
(psychoanalyst) and
Daniel Londero
(Head from Bayer Pharmaceuticals for Conosur).
The event is part of the cycle
"The coming world"
, 10 dialogues between company presidents, officials, social references, renowned experts and entrepreneurs, led by
Clarín
journalists
.
They are debates that seek to detect the
keys
to the future, analyze how the
trends
that are insinuated today will impact the reality of the coming years.
The debate "The Health Challenge"
will be broadcast live on Monday at 11 am
in streaming on the
Clarín.com
page
.
The contents will be shared simultaneously on social networks and later on the
website
and the
printed edition
of the newspaper.
The cycle has the main support of
Banco Macro, OSDE, DESA
and the
Government of the City of Buenos Aires
.
And also with the accompaniment of
Telecom
and
Afarte
, in addition to
Bayer
and
Soaljo
.
In Argentina there are already more than
5 million people infected by Covid 19
, and
more than 107,000 deaths
from the disease.
Last year, this virus was the cause of
19.3% of hospitalizations
in the City of Buenos Aires.
Fernán Quirós.
Photo German Garcia Adrasti
The
vaccine
appeared as the only hope in the face of the health crisis.
Pharmaceutical companies responded with unprecedented speed.
The
Argentina Science
collaborated with extensive
field studies
on the feasibility of such vaccines.
With almost 25 million Argentines inoculated, the debate focused on the application of the
second dose
, which only reaches
less than a third
of those people.
The pandemic also brought the debate on health
resources
to the
table
. The 2021 Budget dedicated
5% of public spending
to the sector
, below the funds earmarked for
energy
or
transportation
subsidies
, for example. And while
almost half
of the patients are cared for through a
social work
,
28% do so through private medicine
, and
18% in the public system
.
That agenda is the one that the panelists will debate: Fernán Quirós, Minister of Health of the City of Buenos Aires, is a Doctor with a
Diploma of Honor
from the
UBA
, specialized in Internal Medicine, he has served as Medical Vice Director of Strategic Planning of
the Italian Hospital
and as Professor and Head of the Department of Human Physiology of the University Institute of that hospital.
Virginia Ungar.
Daniel Londero is Head of Bayer Pharmaceuticals for Conosur. He is a biochemist, pharmacist, graduated from the
Catholic University of Córdoba
. He has a master's degree in business administration. He began his career at Bayer in 2007, on the occasion of the integration of the company Schering SA, where he had worked since 2001. With extensive international experience, he worked in Mexico, the United States and Germany.
Virginia Ungar is a psychoanalyst doctor, titular member with a teaching function of the
Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association
(APdeBA).
He is a specialist in psychoanalysis of children and adolescents.
He received the
Konex Platinum Award
in Psychoanalysis (2016).
And he has just left the
presidency
of the International Psychoanalytic Association, which he held since 2017.
Luis Fontana is the General Director of OSDE, which has
2.2 million associates
and a presence throughout the country.
He is a doctor, specialized in general surgery.
He began his career at OSDE in 1992 as Deputy Manager of Medical Services and has held his current position since 2018.
Eduardo López Photo Juan José Traverso.
Eduardo López is an infectious disease physician and pediatrician. He is in charge of the Medicine department of
the Ricardo Gutiérrez Children's Hospital
. He directs the postgraduate course in Pediatric Infectology at the
University of Buenos Aires
and the chairs of Pediatrics and Vaccination at the
University of Salvador
. And he is a member
of the Expert Committees
that advise the National Executive Power and CABA on Covid 19. He has seven published books on pediatrics, infectology and vaccines.
