06/16/2020 - 12:10
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The vice-minister of Health of the province, Nicolás Kreplak, assured that the quarantine due to the coronavirus should be extended for at least three more months, in order to avoid the collapse of beds and respirators in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), the area of greatest contagion.
"If we achieve a good strategy that gives us three more months of system without collapse, it seems to me that we would all sign that, right?" Said the official, speaking to Animals Loose .
Consulted promptly then for the date in question, Kreplak ratified his analysis: " If we can say that until September 15 we did not collapse the system, I buy."
His statements come a day after the meeting held by the Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García, with his counterparts from Buenos Aires, Daniel Gollán, and from Buenos Aires, Fernán Quirós, in which they resolved to consolidate the information for a control panel. unique between the City and the Province, and emphasize the control of transport and the reopening of shops.
Until now, several experts in medical and exact sciences are dealing with projections about a possible saturation of the health system. One of them, using an alternative model to the one that has been used mostly, reviewed the situation for the City and Greater Buenos Aires.
Rodrigo Quiroga, professor at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the National University of Córdoba and researcher at the Conicet, based on the number of patients who enter intensive care per day and estimated that the total of IT beds will be occupied on 22 July in the City, while in GBA that would happen on August 18.
The Secretary of Quality of the Ministry of Health, Arnaldo Medina, reported that Argentina expanded in three months from 8,400 to 11,500 the number of beds available in intensive care, with which it achieved a ratio of 25.3 beds per 100,000 inhabitants, by above the average for Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. Anyway, with the peak of infections on the horizon, that number of beds could collapse in the medium term.
JPE