04/21/2021 12:10 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/21/2021 12:59 AM
The
government of the province of Buenos Aires
resolved that both public and private sanatoriums
must give exclusivity to Covid cases
in the event that their intensive care beds are 70% occupied for at least two days.
In that case, these medical centers must
suspend or reschedule
"any surgery and / or procedure that may be postponed and that, in the medical judgment,
are not urgent
, as long as the health of the patients is not imminently endangered."
This measure must be complied with by the establishments reached until "the indicated percentage decreases and remains below (70%) for at least two days," and
can then "resume the activities hereby suspended
", it is added.
The Bed Management System (SIGEC) of @BAProvincia is an essential tool that we created 1 year ago.
It is unprecedented in the country and its objective is to have the information of the entire health system to be able to know how many beds are left and efficiently manage referrals
- Daniel Gollan (@DrDanielGollan) April 21, 2021
The measure - signed by the Buenos Aires Minister of Health Daniel Gollán - is taken within the framework of the
health emergency
due to the second wave of coronavirus that hits the country and threatens the
saturation of the health system,
especially in the AMBA.
Article 5 of the resolution specifies that if the provisions are not complied with,
there will be penalties
for "the medical director and / or owner and / or manager and / or administrator and / or person in charge of the establishments."
It summarizes: "The measures established here are reasonable and proportionate in relation
to the threat and health risk faced by our country in general and our province in particular,
and are adopted in order to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic with the object of preserving the public health of Buenos Aires ".
The Bed Management system
The resolution, which is dated Tuesday, April 20, also established the implementation of the
"Bed Management System (SIGEC)"
that will centralize the information on occupied public and private beds.
"This resolution is a formal element to ask
all
Buenos Aires
hospitals, clinics and sanatoriums
to report the status of the beds in the SIGEC.
The system is very tense
and all parties need to have integrated information to be able to optimize it," reported Gollán .
The implementation of this
"Bed Management System",
always as read in the arguments of the resolution, comes from the differences they have in
data collection
.
"That the survey has shown
a differential
of up to twenty-four percent (24%) between the occupation of beds reported in the aforementioned system and those that are actually occupied or released, which seriously affects decision-making," they point out.
That is to say:
Gollán's
portfolio
warns the private sector
that they do not reliably report their level of occupation in therapy and adjusts pegs so that they do so.
In this sense, one of the resolutions is that all Buenos Aires health establishments must
update
the bed census
four times a day
.
.
The controversy over the rule
.
Around midnight, Daniel Gollán came out to
cross the interpretation
that this resolution was an "intervention of the private health system."
"
The Bed Management System integrates the public and private systems, based on an agreement of the different subsectors celebrated last year and ratified in 2021.
It is strategic
at this very complex time and agreed with the clinics. Do not confuse more.
Let rule !!
", Gollán tweeted.
One of those who made this complaint was the president of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich: "They had a year to adapt the health system. They did not. Now, the government of the province of Buenos Aires
intervenes in the private health system
and asks to suspend surgeries to prioritize COVID. "
And he concluded:
"They mess with freedom
and dispose of our life," with the recklessness that usually characterizes it.
They had a year to adapt the health system.
They did not.
Now, the government of the province of Buenos Aires intervenes in the private health system and asks to suspend surgeries to give priority to COVID.
They mess with freedom and dispose of our life.
- Patricia Bullrich (@PatoBullrich) April 21, 2021
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