The Government insists that there is a lack of care for older adults in the City: "Alberto was based on reality data"

08/06/2020 - 11:20

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President Alberto Fernández installed the controversy on Wednesday. He said that older adults "have to attend to the Province because there is no more place in the City" and generated a stir on the other side of General Paz Avenue. This Thursday, Luana Volnovich, head of the PAMI, ratified the president's statements and assured that "Alberto was based on reality data . "

"It is striking what is happening in the case of PAMI providers, the City's health system is more saturated than in the Province, " he said in dialogue with El Destape Radio . And he expanded: "Between the 15 or 20% of affiliates in the City who should be admitted there, we ended up interning them in the Province because we do not have beds in the City"

In his statement, Volnovich clarified that these are "providers who work with PAMI" and that it includes "public hospitals and private providers." He also stated that this situation "would somehow diagnose that in the City, in the case of PAMI providers, the health system would be more demanded than in the Province."

"The message that Alberto gave, in that sense, is that to the elderly, from the point of view of the PAMI and the national State, the commitment is with them and that if they are not admitted to the Capital, they will be admitted to the Province as is happening , but rest assured that they are a priority, "stressed the official.

In addition, he confirmed that it is "a real fact that is suggestive" because it is established that patients from the province "come to Capital" to be treated and that "in the case of PAMI it is the other way around . "

On Wednesday, President Alberto Fernández assured at the inauguration of the new Bicentennial Hospital in the Buenos Aires town of Ituzaingó, that older adults who get coronavirus "have no place to go to in the City," so they must do it in centers of health of the Province of Buenos Aires.

"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.

In this regard, the head of PAMI, concluded: "What we ended up doing is migrating patients to the Province in the new hospitals that we are opening or to the PAMI mild Covid care centers, which the majority that we opened was in the province, or private clinics. "

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