12/03/2020 18:25
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 12/03/2020 18:39
The last three coronavirus patients admitted to Tecnópolis were discharged, the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health reported today, which resolved, after
several consecutive weeks of sick leave
in the province of Buenos Aires, to close the out-of-hospital center.
The health portfolio reported that this center housed
1,347 Buenos Aires patients with coronavirus
during the
146 days
that it was enabled.
It is just over half its capacity,
2,500 beds.
In the province of Buenos Aires there are more than
622 thousand registered infected
.
It is estimated that 80 percent were mild or asymptomatic.
Tecnópolis was established as a space for asymptomatic patients, or with very mild symptoms of Covid-19 who did not have housing characteristics in their homes that allowed them to comply with mandatory isolation, without putting their family members at risk.
However, it was difficult for the Buenos Aires government to get people to agree to go and even offered the payment of
500 pesos per day
with the aim that mild Covid positives would enter there.
Had it been fully operational,
Tecnópolis could have accommodated 36,500 patients
in the time it was open, taking into account that each patient stays there for about ten days.
Present at the discharge of the last three patients were the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollan;
the Administrative Legal and Technical Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health of the province, Victoria Anadón;
the director of the Sanitary Park located in Tecnópolis and councilor for Vicente López, Laura Braiza;
the president of the Red Cross, Diego Tipping;
Paula Pandolfo from Parque Tecnópolis del Bicentenario, and the Head of Nursing, Valeria Ochoa.
Patients at the Tecnópolis center.
Photo: AP
During the closing, Gollan pointed out that the Tecnópolis Sanitary Park was paradigmatic because "in addition to providing health, psychological and social containment to all the citizens who passed through here, it did so with a load of emotion, affection, love, fellowship, of very strong solidarity ".
At the same time, he said that the experience that took place there will be recorded and that it
will
surely
be the subject of study and analysis
in many places.
Meanwhile, the undersecretary Anadón, who was in charge of logistics and assembly since the Nation ceded the property to the Buenos Aires administration together with the Argentine Red Cross and the White Helmets, explained that "there were
more than 200 workers
who they went through the park in different shifts to have 24-hour attention. "
"It was a
revolutionary policy
in health terms, which was proposed to us by President Alberto Fernández; the Minister of Culture of the Nation, Tristán Bauer and Governor Axel Kicillof," he remarked.
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