The Medical College expresses that the ignorance of the conditions of quarantine areas cast doubt on the capacity of Health.
Although the Government has $ 8.6 million available for the international emergency of coronavirus, the Medical College questioned the preparation they are giving to medical staff and warns that the Ministry of Health is occupying the disease to lift the bad image in the face of the water crisis.
The union exposed the concern of risk that doctors have before the arrival of the virus and the lack of information on the subject.
“The ministry is making a media approach, from what it says to reality there is a difference, what we see a bit of improvisation, we understand that the Government, after the water crisis, the Health authorities and credibility were preached it fell and they are using the theme to improve the image, ”says Milton Brizuela, president of the Medical College.
The lack of equipment such as artificial respirators and an adaptation in infrastructure in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) in public hospitals, the lack of information about the area where coronavirus suspect patients will be isolated cause doctors to have doubts about how The disease will be treated.
“Usually, from what we have perceived and what colleagues say, they don’t have much confidence. We do not know the adequacy of the infrastructure if they arrive infected with the virus; At the moment we do not know if it meets the safety conditions for the disease to spread to patients, as well as to professional health colleagues, ”he said.
The doctor says that in China, where the virus is, “the risk of contamination of health professionals is high, so we are concerned that the authorities, in addition to preparing us, do not give us enough supplies for personal protection,” he lamented.
Brizuela says that before the virus arrived in the country, the Ministry of Health you must prioritize and hire medical and paramedical personnel, because the treatment plan for acute respiratory infections, which is carried in some health centers, is giving difficulties because the service where doctors are established in the emergency units need professionals for the care .
He added that even the health authorities do not have a defined protocol for the attention of suspicious cases, because the people who are giving medical assistance to the seven Salvadorans who are under quarantine for arriving in the country on trips from China are epidemiological interest and are being treated at a military garrison near the airport, “we have information that any doctor who is on duty at the Zacatecoluca hospital take them to see them, that means they do not have a well established protocol,” he said.
He warned that the capacity of Intensive Care units is always saturated and they expect that 8.6 million to deal with the emergency will be well used.
As a guild, he added, they have trained 1,000 doctors on the behavior of coronavirus that the collegiate entity is developing and that intend to take it to the interior of the country, because not all doctors nationwide have been trained to respond to the emergency.
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