After a meeting between the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, and the Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, yesterday afternoon It was ruled out that the city has to enter a strict quarantine in July, as it was considered.
At this meeting, the District and the National Government clarified the delivery figures for mechanical ventilators, which are key to the care of critically ill patients, and it was agreed that This week the city will receive an additional 305 devices, in addition to 125 from 15 days ago. Thus, 292 are pending, for a total of 722 of these devices.
According to what was exposed by Minister Ruiz, the projections would indicate that Bogotá needs only 1,042 fans, of which the Government is committed to 70%. Of these, as announced, this week there will be an advance delivery of 305.
The mayor herself, at the end of the meeting with the head of the Health portfolio, said that “In July the city is already covered without risk of going on red alert”. And he explained that “to the extent that the 722 (fans) are insured and if more are required (…), the Minister says that we are seeing week by week.” In any case, López estimates that they would require up to 1,000.
The president also pointed out that if the need for these devices continues to grow in August, above the 722 that were agreed yesterday, “The Ministry and the Fome (Emergency Mitigation Fund) would make an additional delivery.”
In April, the District had announced that 4,000 fans were to be installed, but then lowered the estimate to 3,000 and then 2,000, of which it expected the National Government to deliver 70%.
But yesterday, both the president and the minister clarified that there was a “communication error”, because while the Mayor’s Office expected the Presidency to deliver a total of 1,400 fans to the city, the Ministry projected a little more than half.
The Health portfolio also indicated that through the Fome and the National Unit for Risk Management, Bogotá will receive support to buy monitors and infusion pumps. However, there was no mention of a specific number.
In dialogue with EL TIEMPO, Diego Molano, director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (Dapre), assured that the “National Government has been complying” and explained that “The mayor sent a letter in April asking us for support and the government answered her on what she could compromise and what she could not. There it indicated that it was going to support 70% of the plan indicated by the Ministry of Health ”.
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Molano also stated that “here we have to achieve a healthy balance between purposes that we must all fulfill, as President Duque proposes: how health and life are protected, how in this pandemic the most vulnerable are supported and how it is protected the employment and work of Colombians, especially micro, small and medium-sized companies. ”
The director of the Dapre assured that after 100 days of closings what is required is to focus efforts and that “You cannot do full closings again because the effects on employment and well-being are devastating”.
According to Saludata figures, the website where the Mayor’s Office publishes the reports of the covid-19 pandemic, with a cut yesterday, the city has 957 available intensive care beds (ICUs), of which 694 were used, for an occupation of 72.5%.
Similarly, there are 36 hospitals and IPS that have already exceeded 70% of occupancy and are on red alert, four more have exceeded 50% and are on yellow alert. Only 11 are below half capacity.
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At press time, Bogotá reported 30,017 positive cases of the virus and only yesterday were 697, with the towns of Kennedy, Bosa, Ciudad Bolívar and Engativá having the most infections.
Even since this Tuesday, 134 neighborhoods of five UPZ have been on orange alert due to the high number of infections. These sectors will have to comply with a strict quarantine – as happened in the drill from March 20 to 24 – until July 14.
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That people protect themselves and go out and work, but what cannot be is that they are going to end the country
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On the other hand, in the forum “Law of regions: from saying to doing”, organized by the National Federation of Departments, the attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, spoke against a strict quarantine throughout the city. “It is a shame to quarantine what, that people protect themselves and go out and work, as is done in other countries, but what cannot be is that they are going to end the country.”
Barbosa also said that “we are in a situation in which the country is going to end up losing in what it had gained in 50 years through improvisations (…), that will lead to an increase in insecurity and greater criminal indicators than They are going to be a calamity. “
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