Attention from the Community of Madrid to the Ministry of Health. The region, the most affected by the coronavirus, demands the government a centralized distribution of material to avoid “shortages” in the region’s hospitals. The Community admits that the problem is “very serious” and that “immediate solutions are needed.” Otherwise, as the director general of Madrid Public Health, Yolanda Fuentes, warns, health workers will not be able to continue doing their work, “not only to stop the coronavirus,” he points out, “but regular health care.”
Sources assures that the lack of the so-called PPE –personal protective equipment – it is serious and “may be critical next week”. Sources consulted by SER assure that the letter, which does not specify when it was written, or to whom; It was sent on March 7 to those responsible for Public Health of the Ministry, whose visible head is Dr. Fernando Simón. You can see the full letter here.
The CEO proposes several measures, such as authorizing the use of material that current protocols do not recognize as appropriate; start manufacturing equipment in Spain in the face of restrictions that some producing countries have imposed; require European partners who have blocked their sale outside their countries to lift these measures; or even the use of equipment “whose use date has already expired”.
The Fuentes letter it is in line with the situations that some professionals and unions have been denouncing about the lack of material or its dropper distribution among professionals.
Cadena SER is awaiting an official assessment of the letter by the Ministry of Health, which this Tuesday has brought a measure to the Council of Ministers that seems aimed at alleviating this problem. A royal decree that enables the central government to centrally distribute all the material considered essential for the protection of health. The text modifies the Law on Extraordinary Measures in Public Health, which only allowed it in the case of sanitary products, a category in which material, as the minister, Salvador Illa explained, did not include protective glasses.
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