“Put on your shirt!”, “There are no microbial mats, no antibacterial gel”, “What will happen if we get sick, how will it protect your health personnel”, “We do not know what protocols to follow with the coronavirus“protested health workers from different areas of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) before the CEO Jorge Salas Hernández.
Facing the general direction of INER, members of Section 16 of the National Union of Workers of the Ministry of Health claimed the lack of protocols to deal with the contingency due to COVID-19.
Oscar Ramos, union leader assured that the Ministry of Health “was late for the coronavirus party”, since the INER does not have sufficient infrastructure and supplies to care for people who contract the virus.
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“Here we have a pavilion to isolate patients, the fourth, but only three out of six isolation cubicles work. In addition, there are influenza patients, we are in constant risk and we are not given the supplies to work with protection, nor masks n95 we they want to give, “he said.
Mercedes Rodríguez, from the special X-ray shift, reproached the lack of sensitivity towards health personnel and demanded that procedures be established to deal with the contingency due to COVID-19.
“You have been here at the institute and you do not come to ask us what we need, you do not wear the shirt, we want to work, we give everything, but we need supplies, it is not possible to recycle clothes when there are patients with coronavirus.”
Another employee reported that there is no antibacterial gel and that when they held discussions with the director of administration, they were informed that there are no supplies.
“There are no microbial mats or training, colleagues improvise to change their suits, there is no area to do it, we have become ill with influenza and we are not exempt from getting coronavirus, what attention will they give us,” he questioned.
Also, a worker who is in the cashier area asked the director of the institute to explain to patients that there are recovery fees, “people come and ask us, they say that the care is free, but that is not true” .
In this regard, Jorge Salas Hernández stated that recovery quotas are expected to be eliminated next December and stated that attention strategies are being worked on.
“Tomorrow the strategies will change. The emergency department is becoming saturated and inappropriate. A document with 25 points to follow, on the recovery quotas, will be published today, work is being done so that in December there will be no more,” he said. .
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