Despite having a Minsa-Capsi with 90% progress in Puerto Caimito, La Chorrera has a hard time
CORPRENSAWaiting room of the Puerto Caimito Health Center. Photo: 2018 Archive.-
Despite having for four and a half years a Comprehensive Primary Health Care Center (Minsa-Capsi) advanced by 90% of its structure, the residents of the Puerto Caimito township, in La Chorrera, are still looking forward to its opening.
A topic that continues to generate sadness and concern about conditions in which the health center of the sector is currently located, especially in these times of pandemic.
A source who asked to reserve his name informed this media, on Tuesday morning that six officials from the Puerto Caimito Health Center tested positive for covid-19, and it is not ruled out that there are more.
Overcrowding is a serious public health problem and this could be one of the reasons why several officials are now affected.
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In a report published in Mi Diario in August 2018, we were able to collect the following information on the subject of Minsa-Capsi, which to date has not been used despite the fact that it is 90% complete.
The director of the Panama West Health Region, Dr. Joaquín Chang, explained that the contractor responsible for the construction of the Minsa-Capsi in Puerto Caimito had won other projects in the last administration of (2009-2014) and apparently the company fell in lag and they suspended all the works of those works, among them the Judicial City and the two markets of La Chorrera, explained Dr. Chang in 2018.
He added that although they tried to reach an agreement with the foreign company Omega Engineering, Inc., to put Minsa-Capsi to work, they made the decision to place the project in arbitration and this legal process takes a period of time.
Currently, the Puerto Caimito health center does not meet the minimum conditions to care for patients, some adaptations need to be made to improve.
“We are putting all the effort to guarantee our human resources and users a safe and quality care, that is what we aspire to,” said the rector of health in Panama West at the time.
SERVICES
The new Minsa-Capsi building would have all the basic specialties that are in the first level of care. Among them Pediatrics, Laboratory, Imaging, Gynecology-Obstetrics, a service that the health center does not currently have, which is in an overcrowded situation after serving around 60 to 70 people daily in too small a space.
COMPLAINT
After the residents of the place denounced that the equipment was in the Minsa-Capsi in Puerto Caimito, they had been taken to the new Minsa-Capsi in Burunga, Dr. Chang clarified that they cannot take out any equipment, that is prohibited and more for the current situation in which the installation is.
SERIOUS PROBLEMS
The consequences of the suspension of the work are still very sensitive, since it is the users who suffer when receiving medical attention.
They walk through dark streets in the early hours of the morning in fear of being victims of criminals; when it rains, the area on the outskirts of the health center is flooded due to lack of street fill.
The leaks have already wet even the records; they do not have air conditioning and those who suffer the most are children; there is an agglomeration of patients, since there are more and more neighborhoods near the place.
Many times they have to make an additional expense when leaving town to take the exams or in emergencies they take longer to arrive.
All this set of situations that the residents of the Puerto Caimito sector live makes them feel forgotten and abandoned, so some users or residents already threaten to make a protest or close the street to speed up the operation of their Minsa-Capsi.
The inhabitants do not lose hope that this Government can solve the problem. On July 22, 2019, the former Health Minister Rosario Turner, who had just taken office, reported that these projects were being investigated.
They are the projects that are being investigated
— Rosario Turner (@rosarioetm) July 23, 2019
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