08/05/2020 - 13:21
- Clarín.com
- Politics
President Alberto Fernández assured that older adults who get coronavirus"they do not have place where to take care of in the City" , reason why must do it in health centers of the Province of Buenos Aires.
He said this Wednesday, during the launch of the new Bicentennial Hospital in the Buenos Aires town of Ituzaingó, where he also described the Mauricio Macri government as "a metaphor for oblivion" and declared himself "the best disciple of Néstor Kichner. "
"I have a strange feeling. Luana (Volnovich, executive director of the PAMI) gently sent me Néstor's speech when he promised to carry out this much-needed hospital. The story made Cristina build it and leave it almost ready. Then the story it made a kind of metaphor of forgetting appear for four years and that today we can only be starting it up, "said the president, who spoke by videoconference from the Quinta de Olivos.
And he added: "The metaphor of forgetfulness makes me very sad. It is having left tens of thousands of Argentines who needed this hospital to be working sooner without health ."
Accompanied at the presidential residence by Volnovich and the Minister of Health, Ginés González García; Fernández contacted Governor Axel Kicillof and Mayor Alberto Descalzo, who were in the hospital.
"It is always nice to read it to Nestor. He declared himself his best disciple. He asked them to help him fulfill the dream of building the hospital. In time, I realized that he was right: these things happen because they are the decision of many. , the Health Minister, PAMI, the mayor, the governor and the community that knows that there is a need there, "he added.
He continued, in that line: "It gives me joy to be inaugurating something that Néstor thought, which Cristina executed and it is my turn to finish it. It is a wonderful synthesis of what our time has been. I am putting order and being able to make Néstor's dream come true. Cristina's work. What a good idea that all of us had to unite after those four years. If that had not happened I would not be speaking to you today; Axel would not be the great governor that he is; and perhaps Ginés would not have appeared with his great wisdom to take charge of a life-threatening pandemic. "
The president also made mention of the debt agreement reached in the last hours with the bondholders, assuring that those resources will be destined "to the forgotten of Argentina."
"I want every older adult, every grandfather and every grandmother, to know that we are working for them. We are doing it in very difficult situations. If we had not corrected the debt, between 2020 and 2025 we should have paid 45 billion dollars . That already it does not exist. We have to dedicate those resources to the forgotten in Argentina. And the elderly are part of it, "he promised.
"This is so that our older adults who today become ill with Covid in the City and have to be cared for in the Province because in the City there is no more place . Know that we are guaranteeing the care that they are requiring at this time," he said.
The Bicentennial hospital will be the first in the public network in that city of the western suburbs and will add 52 hospital beds to the health system. In addition, it will have 21 respirators and will start its activities as a closed health center for people with coronavirus
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