08/07/2020 - 9:07
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, responded again this Friday to the statements of President Alberto Fernández that the PAMI should transfer patients with coronavirus to clinics in the Buenos Aires suburbs due to lack of place in the City and, although he stated that the president's statements are "correct", he stated that it is the provider that must explain why he lacks beds.
"I never said that the president was misinformed, he made a description of a fact that corresponds to a national social work, said the president and the director of the PAMI that about 15% of the patients hospitalized in the conurbano. That is a matter of the autonomy that social works have and the autarky that PAMI has to decide on contracts with AMBA clinics and sanitariums. It is an objective description of a number of people who are hospitalized on one side and the other of General Paz, "he said. .
During the epidemiological report on Friday, the president assured that the Buenos Aires Health system is robust in the midst of the pandemic, and that the explanation must be given by the entity led by Luana Volnovich.
"The reason why there are 15% of PAMI people interned in the suburbs is something that PAMI has to explain because they are the contracts they make. A third of the PAMI affiliates of the City have an agreement with the public system of the city and there we are directly responsible, the rest of the PAMI affiliates is the PAMI who decides, "Quirós explained.
On Wednesday, during the opening of a hospital, Alberto Fernández had assured that the PAMI should transfer patients from the City to the suburbs due to lack of beds, something that the PAMI head herself confirmed on Thursday.
"The president spoke about the PAMI beds, where the PAMI beds are, it is their decision that I cannot answer, I can clarify that the City has a public sector infrastructure that is in sight, of the 1,500 hospital beds In general, we have an occupation of 55%, of the 450 covid beds plus 115 for non-covid, we have 64% and 5,000 hotel beds occupied for the mild, that there are some 3,200 beds occupied, "said Quirós this Friday.
According to the Buenos Aires minister, the City Health system "has been strengthened in this pandemic" and said that "each social work and prepaid has its recruitment organization that has to attest to its affiliates where they will be served and how "
"The president's sayings are correct, the PAMI has 15% of patients in the suburbs but what you have to ask is what is the strategy for hiring providers. When he talks about saturated people, he talks about those hired by PAMI ”, Quirós closed.
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