For four weeks, the Health Secretary integrated an intersectoral work team in order to identify and put into process a standardization program of the Health services for diseases that are not Covid, that is, to start with the Hospital “disconversion” and reinstate services for other chronic conditions that were delayed due to the pandemic.
At a press conference, Hugo López – Gatell Ramírez reported that they have not yet completed this program, which they will call the “Continuity Plan for clinical care operations,” which will seek ways to provide services to patients who saw the service postponed. Of course, the conversion by Covid-19 will continue, since the influenza season is approaching and the government seeks to maintain hospital capacity.
“A health services standardization program will be launched to correct the lags that exist both in diagnosis, as well as in therapy and rehabilitation that were displaced with the reconversion, but we have reconsidered that the focus is not to convert clinical units but to reorganize to have a reconversion to allow covid patients, because the autumn winter season is coming and we are going to have influenza, we need to have that hospital capacity, but return to the ability to correct the lag and care for people with other illnesses ”.
He said that a possible solution would be to attend these patients in first-class clinics and that there may be a change with respect to the facilities where they were treated prior to the arrival of the new coronavirus.
“A first-level reinforcement and displacement of clinical services is foreseen so that the population in need is received with better efficiency. One of the changes that may exist is that the address where they are cared for is changed to facilitate access to services, this may cause confusion at first, but it will be selected with criteria of quality of care and physical proximity for its ease ” .
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