Coronavirus: Larreta spent twice as much as Kicillof against Covid per inhabitant, but has 31% of GBA internees

Pablo Sigal

09/11/2020 - 12:02

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The budgetary imbalances between the City and the province of Buenos Aires, which were exposed as of the Buenos Aires police crisis, exceed this specific problem.

The deficit also exists in health and other areas.

If the focus is on the coronavirus pandemic,

between what

have spent per inhabitant

to combat it is particularly sensitive.

Sources from the Buenos Aires government informed

that the money allocated so far to the pandemic was

.

This includes all

: purchase of respirators, multi-parameter monitors, infusion pumps, intensive therapy beds, N95 chinstraps, surgical chinstraps, protective equipment for medical personnel (gown, cap, boots and overalls), gloves , masks and glasses.

But not only that.

Also included in this budget are

who joined the fight against the pandemic, some infrastructure works, PCR tests and laboratory analyzes.

This amount does not include special assistance funds or resources intended to alleviate the economic emergency caused by the coronavirus.

The total allocated means an investment of

of the Province.

In the case of the city of Buenos Aires, the situation is more comfortable.

The official information accessed by

 accounts for a health budget allocated to Covid, so far, of

, based on the reallocation of items from other ministries and the Ministry of Health itself.

With that money, the City has invested

so far in 2020.

An important part of this budget gap has been translated into

.

It can be seen, for example, in the way in which the

neighborhood by neighborhood, through systematic operations to

the close contacts of patients.

A patient rests during his quarantine with health professionals in Tecnópolis, where they isolate patients from Buenos Aires.

Photo: EFE

That "chase"

.

More tests and provision of isolation places in conditions to receive patients, such as hotels that were destined for that purpose.

One of the difficulties that the Province had in isolating people was that, except in the comfortable facilities of Tecnópolis (Nation's contribution through), in the municipal centers destined for that purpose there was no heating in the middle of winter.

However, underneath that

Buenos Aires

sprouts another phenomenon: the City's investment against the coronavirus does not

target

According to district data,

coronavirus

who occupy intensive care beds in public hospitals do not reside in the Federal Capital.

As is often the case with all Argentine program areas, the City is usually 

in the availability of resources.

The figures for the province of Buenos Aires, on the other hand, almost always

: a balance between rich and poor districts.

This national average in investment against the coronavirus is, in turn,

.

Not only in comparison with European countries, but with those of the region.

According to a study by researchers from Columbia University, in the United States, Argentina ranks

in investment against Covid, by percentage of GDP destined to curb the pandemic.

The list is headed by Peru (9%) and followed by Brazil (8%), Paraguay (7%) and Chile (6%).

Argentina is at

, on a par with Guatemala and Panama.

The researchers clarify, however, that more investment is

The country that

on the planet was Japan (21% of GDP), followed by Luxembourg (20%) and Belgium (19%).

The United States allocated 13% of its resources and Sweden, 12%.

The greater investment results, for example, in the possibility of testing the population more, something in which Argentina always showed a deficit.

Although the

grew over the course of the pandemic, in some districts more than in others, the balance is that

.

And Argentines already know

of that situation: they had to compensate for the scarcity of resources with an endless quarantine.

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