08/07/2020 - 8:50
- Clarín.com
- Society
In a new epidemiological report from the City of Buenos Aires, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, reported that the district will not adopt the new criteria for a confirmed coronavirus case suggested by the National Ministry of Health.
What established the portfolio headed by Ginés González García is that people who present two or more symptoms of coronavirus (temperature greater than 37.5, sore throat, cough, shortness of breath, headache, diarrhea and / or vomiting, the alteration in taste and / or smell), living in areas of community transmission of the virus and living with someone who has been diagnosed with the infection, will no longer be tested and will be considered a case confirmed by epidemiological link, with some exceptions.
"We are not going to make use of that possibility," Quirós confirmed this Friday and explained: "What the Nation is enabling is for each jurisdiction to change its methodology for clinical case management, making diagnosis by epidemiological link. It is a common practice in epidemics, but we believe that in order to reach this scenario, it would be necessary to have very little response capacity with diagnostic tests. "
In this sense, he reported that the City has "the capacity to grow with PCR." And he detailed: "The public sector has the capacity to do 4,000 tests per day, we are at 2,400 to 2,800, we have the capacity to grow."
He also stressed that the decision lies in the extra effort that is required of those who are infected with the virus. "We believe that it is still very important to confirm or rule out the disease because when someone confirms the disease, they ask for a set of additional efforts, such as separating from their families . "
"Given that we have the capacity to carry out the tests and given that it seems to us that the effort that must be asked of the citizens is an effort that requires the definitive confirmation of the case, we are not going to make use of that. Although I clarify that it is a common methodology in an epidemic, "Quirós concluded.
Asked about the controversy after President Alberto Fernández's statements about the lack of beds in the City for the care of older adults affiliated with PAMI, Quirós remarked: “I never said that the President was misinformed, he made a description of a fact that corresponds to a national social work. The president and director of PAMI said that about 15% of PAMI patients are hospitalized in the Conurbano. This is a matter of the autonomy that social works have and the autarchy that PAMI has to decide on contracts with AMBA clinics and sanitariums. It is an objective description of a number of people who are interned on one side and the other of General Paz. ”
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