The letter was sent a day after the government also requested doctors from Spain.
As a request for “humanitarian aid”, a letter from the Ministry of Health of El Salvador was extended to the Pediatric Association of Guatemala on June 26.
The purpose of Health is for Guatemala to announce a call issued by this Government to Guatemalan doctors who want to attend the emergency of COVID-19 in El Salvador.
“We made an urgent request for support for the Guatemalan Pediatric Association to cooperate in publicizing the call of the Government of El Salvador for Guatemalan doctors and nurses to apply for contracts for professional services,” the document states.
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Likewise, he adds that the selected doctors will provide care to COVID-19 patients who are in the recently opened National Hospital of El Salvador. According to the government report, the hospital has 105 intensive care beds.
For the second phase, they expect to have 400 beds and at the end of July they hope to complete 1,000 intensive and intermediate care beds.
Health requests Guatemala chartered doctors of specialties: internists, intensivists, anesthesiologists, pulmonologists, nephrologists, surgeons, pediatricians and cardiologists. Also, intensive care nurses.
The Government will absorb the costs of round-trip transportation of doctors, accommodation, food, internal transportation and fees for professional services.
“The need for support is imminent, so if there are interested professionals, the selection and hiring process will be carried out for a minimum period of three months,” says the letter sent to the Board of Directors of the Guatemalan Pediatric Association.
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On June 25, El Salvador also requested support from Spain for the same purpose: physicians caring for patients with COVID-19 who are in a former CIFCO hospital.
In the letter, Salud asks for “the collaboration of the competent authorities” in Spain to enable health personnel to participate in an “urgent mission of international health cooperation” in El Salvador. The letter explains that El Salvador is currently in a situation of “massive contagion”.
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