The president of the Collegiate Medical Organization (WTO), Serafín Romero, has considered this Monday that with the epidemiological data that Madrid has, this community should "lead almost to a phase 1" and in the rest of the country it should adopt "a level more restrictive ”, except in Asturias.
Romero responded this way when asked if in Madrid the measures should be toughened in a press conference of the Forum of the Medical Profession, of which the WTO is part, called to answer the question of whether there are a lack of doctors in Spain.
It has warned that there will be more and more victims, hospitals will be overloaded and professionals will be more tired, so more measures have to be taken and not look the other way.
"With the figures that Madrid has, it almost had to approach a phase 1 and everyone would have to do more than what is being done, except Asturias", stressed Romero, who has warned that in Spain "the pandemic has exceeded ”.
After recognizing that a balance must be maintained between the control of the pandemic and the economic and social situation, he assured that “if we do not fix the health, the rest is doomed to a true tragedy.
We cannot fall back on the same stone ”.
Romero recalled that a month ago the General Council of Medical Associations said that it was necessary to take a turn at the helm and propose a single command in public health, and has denounced the political debate on this issue, which he said to attend "astonished and indignant ”, And that“ it is not leaving us very well ”internationally.
The president of the doctors has wondered what it takes for there to be an expert opinion that sets the guidelines.
"What is grotesque to us is that we do not have a common basis in decision-making," said Romero, who recalled that Andalusia and Castilla y León have asked "loudly" for there to be a single scenario for taking decisions. decisions.
In the same sense, the president of the State Confederation of Medical Unions (CESM), Tomás Toranzo, has said, who has asked for the same parameters for all of Spain and has urged to "leave" the debate between the Government-Community of Madrid.
The Association for the Defense of Public Health of Madrid (ADSP) has indicated that those taken by the Community Government are "insufficient" and considers "more reasonable and sensible" those proposed by the Ministry of Health.
In a statement, they ensure that the Community of Madrid "is behind the events and does not adopt preventive measures to contain the pandemic."
In his opinion, "insisting on the confinement of basic health areas is a clearly irrational solution, which is very difficult to comply with and which, on the other hand, does not prevent most of the transmission of the virus."
“I ask Ayuso to order the perimeter closure of Madrid.
For rationality, for responsibility, for solidarity, ”the president of the Barcelona College of Physicians, Jaume Padrós, pleaded with the regional president.
