04/22/2021 10:13 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/22/2021 10:54 AM
In the midst of concern about the second wave of coronavirus that raised the fatalities of the pandemic in Argentina to more than 60,000, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollan, assured that "
not even the one with the most expensive prepaid in the country has secured an
"intensive therapy
bed
if you need one."
He said it when giving details of the saturation of the health system in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires.
Gollan stressed that in recent days there was a "
slowdown in the growth curve
" of infections and explained that, among other factors, it may be because people "are beginning to become aware that it is not a matter that is only going to touch others ".
"I like to tell him conscience, but also the human being has a reaction of fear and
the reaction of fear is that no one has a safe bed anymore
. Not even the one who has the most expensive prepaid in the country has a bed insured," he said in statements a
Radio con Vos
.
Doctors transfer a patient with coronavirus to an intensive therapy unit at the Evita de Lanús Hospital.
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.
On that subject, he added: "There are people who say 'I pay a fee of I don't know how much money' and are used to a level of care that they do not want to give up. But the beds are finished and what the private companies are doing is
renting beds. in clinics and sanatoriums in the province
, but that also fills us on the province's side in private clinics. "
Gollan said those details were discussed with the prepaid holders with whom the government headed by Axel Kicillof met on Wednesday.
Agreement with prepaid
At that meeting, the creation of a bed management system was formalized to follow in detail the occupation not only of the public sector, which it already had, but also of the private sector.
Axel Kicillof met with Claudio Belocopit and representatives of prepaid medicine and social works.
Photo: Government of the province of Buenos Aires.
The Buenos Aires government did so through a resolution in which it also decided to grant "absolute priority" to the care of patients with Covid 19 and indicated the suspension and rescheduling of surgeries that are not urgent when the occupation in the intensive care sector is place it at 70%, something that is already happening.
"The resolution comes to formalize something that we have been doing since last year," Gollan insisted.
Regarding the fight to try to stop the advance of the coronavirus, the official remarked that the objective is to slow down the contagion curve, something could be seen in recent days.
"I knock on wood but 3 or 4 days ago we began to see a slowdown in the growth curve. We began to see that in the spontaneous consultation units it fell," he said.
Gollan also referred to the possible measures that could be taken after April 30, when the term stipulated in the restrictions established by the Government ends, and stated that it will be key "
how they spend these days with the occupation of beds
."
Gollan specified that, unlike what happened in 2020, "patients admitted to hospital have a much longer hospitalization process."
"Last year we started with 20 days and we reached 7 or 8 days. Now, in addition, there are many young people hospitalized. This variant of Manaus, which we already have everywhere, and the one in the United Kingdom are much more aggressive", added.
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