Claudio Andrade
03/19/2021 3:58 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/19/2021 3:58 PM
An internal letter, sent by the members of the medical team of the Río Turbio hospital (Santa Cruz) to the director of the institution, Dr. Marcelo Blanco, denounces that the town
lacks the minimum health structure
to continue facing the coronavirus pandemic.
Copies of the leaked letter, to which
Clarín
agreed
, were delivered to Mayor Darío Menna (FpV) and the Deliberative Council.
The doctors indicate that
they do not have IV stands, beds, garbage cans and mattresses
, as well as no nurses or caretakers to disinfect the spaces.
And this just to start.
The institution lacks equipment of medium complexity, essential to save lives, according to the document.
"I am writing to you in order to reiterate the request already requested with regard to the rooms enabled without the basic conditions for the
essential minimum care
required by Covid patients in our community," starts the letter, one of the many that Professionals have already been sent to their superiors in recent months, according to reports.
"Knowing the aforementioned, you are notified of the serious consequences that this can bring,
due to the lack of quality of care
that patients will suffer in that area," he continues.
"We also emphasize that
we do not have enough human or technological resources
to treat more than 7 seriously ill patients, of which it is already in full use. Lack of trained physicians to approach these patients, lack of nurses to care for them, caretaker to condition and disinfect environments ", they warn.
The signatures of the letter from the doctors of Río Turbio due to the lack of infrastructure to face the Covid.
And the letter continues: "We do not have multiple supplies such as continuous infusion pumps, ventilator tabulators, 3 lumens central lines, the rooms do not have an IV stand, minimal real estate such as obsolete beds without railings, outlet panel, monitoring cameras. , anti-decubitus mattresses, multiparametric monitors, saturometers, flumiter and pressure gauges for oxygen panels, bedding, garbage cans, many more missing ".
"We are waiting for an immediate response to solve this request," he concludes.
The authors of the note are Georgina Artico and Carlos Baeza, specialists in internal medicine, Dr. Nicolás Matías, Diego Molina, intensive care and ultrasound doctor.
Río Turbio accumulates
873 cases, 18 deaths and has 848 people in isolation
.
14,500 vaccines have arrived in the province governed by Alicia Kirchner, according to official data.
The total population is around 350 thousand inhabitants.
Neighbors tell this newspaper that only a part of the medical staff had been vaccinated until a few weeks ago.
"Doctors
do not want to speak publicly
because some earn very good salaries and also work in the mine, they are afraid of losing their job,"
a businessman who lives in the area
explains to
Clarín
.
This newspaper tried to communicate with some professionals but did not get a response.
This week a neighbor, Soledad Sarru
f, organized a collection together with other villagers to raise money
and buy some of the basic products missing from the institution.
Río Turbio today does not exceed 10,000 inhabitants.
Its main source of income was historically the exploitation of coal mines.
The current controller of the Río Turbio Carboniferous Reservoir, Aníbal Fernández, promised to reactivate the mine and the Thermal Power Plant in which Kirchnerism invested around USD 2 billion.
And it never ended.
Bariloche. Correspondent
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