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Coronavirus: the Province warns that oxygen consumption tripled and asks for more production

2021-04-26T23:32:40.939Z


This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak. "If you have a respirator, but you don't have oxygen, it is useless," he said.


04/25/2021 11:26 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 04/25/2021 2:30 PM

The occupation of beds and respirators has the authorities of the province of Buenos Aires in suspense.

And the Deputy Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, reported that "oxygen consumption has tripled in the last ten days" and spoke of a saturation in production.

"In other countries, the production of oxygen was not enough. We are talking about preventing this, that the industry turns to sanitation, but also we must produce more oxygen. What used to be filled once a week, now is filled every two days. If you have a respirator, but you do not have oxygen, it is useless, "he said.

Faced with this situation, the Province began to buy machines that manufacture oxygen: "We had one that had been abandoned in the province for more than 20 years and we put it back to work. And we bought new ones, as well as machines that are individual concentrators. "Kreplak told Radio Del Plata.

The occupation of beds alarms the authorities.

Photo: EFE

Criticisms of the City

Kreplak was concerned about the advance of the second wave of coronavirus and warned that, although the measures taken "slowed the curve", the number of daily infections "is still too high" for the health system.

In addition, it returned to target the City of Buenos Aires.

He said it within days of the expiration of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency signed by the national government that, among other restrictions, ordered the closure of schools in the AMBA until April 30. 

"The measures that were taken slowed down the curve. However, the number of cases is still too high to be supported by the health system," the official warned.

Kreplak repeated that the system is

"saturating"

and assured that "50% of the beds in the public sector have patients from social works."

Along the same lines, the Buenos Aires vice minister once again pointed to the management of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: "The situation has exceeded the response capacity, first in the City of Buenos Aires, where the transfer of patients began to be strongly observed with prepaid medicine to the province of Buenos Aires ".

To criticize Rodríguez Larreta's health strategy, the province had released a newsletter stating that more than 75,000 porteños forged information about their address to access the coronavirus vaccine in Buenos Aires.

However, they ignored one fact: the number of Buenos Aires people who were vaccinated in the City was even higher.


To exemplify the critical state of this second wave, Kreplak noted that there have been ambulances that had nowhere to take the patients they transported.

"All the prepaid companies have said that out there they

have 12 or 15 hours for a person in an ambulance

, looking for an intensive therapy bed. Arriving 12 hours later for assistance loses part of the effect of preventing complications," he warned.

"Therapeutic care is no longer depending on the indication but on availability," he reaffirmed. 

According to the latest official report, coronavirus cases in the province of Buenos Aires amounted to

1,238,059

after 10,156 new infections were confirmed.

Meanwhile, 31,574 people have died since the start of the pandemic in the country, in March 2020.

JPE


Look also

Nicolás Kreplak: "We continue at a level of cases that is unsustainable for the Health system"

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Source: clarin

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