The Cuban Prime MinisterManuel Marrero Cruz He assured that the people of Cienfuegos have more complaints about health care due to mistreatment and neglect of professionals in this area than about the lack of medicines and resources to offer health services in the coronavirus crisis.
"This province is the same as the others with the lack of antigen tests, the lack of medicines, the same objective problems, butthere are more complaints about subjective problems. When you add up (criticisms for deficiencies) they are less than the number of complaints and complaints about mistreatment, neglect, or because they don't visit me. "That's incredible!" said the prime minister.
Marrero made the comment at a COVID-19 prevention and control meeting held in Cienfuegos, this Tuesday, along with other political leaders from the region.
He indicated that in the province "mistakes are being made" and that "there is indiscipline." He advised that access to the territory and circulation between municipalities must be closed more rigorously.
The prime minister gave weight to the lack of professionalism and downplayed the shortcomings that health workers suffer in being able to correctly offer their services.
In the midst of the health crisis that the territory is suffering due to the coronavirus, there ismore than 120 doctors who do not return to work because they benefit from a labor resolution that protects them for having health or other problems.
The Governor of Cienfuegos,Alexandre Corona Quintero, specified on Monday that these 129 doctors are from Primary Care. In addition, there are 46 doctors in Secondary Care with salary guarantees and in the province a total of 701 health professionals who are on vacation.
The collapse of the Cienfuegos health system has become visible in recent weeks. A user on Twitter shared a video showingBedridden patients in the waiting room of the Provincial Hospital and sick people lying on the sidewalks of the premises waiting to be treated.
Also from Cumanayagua, strong images were shared with apatient suffering from an attack of shortness of breath in a waiting room and he did not receive medical attention nor was there an ambulance in the territory to take him to another place.
The Cuban leaderMiguel Díaz-Canel warned that the country is at the limit of its capabilities in the fight against coronavirus.
“If we do not achieve more effectiveness in this confrontation work and, on the other hand, the isolation and physical distancing measures are complied with, we will not control the disease,” Díaz-Canel said at the meeting of the government's Temporary Working Group for the confronting the epidemic.
The group of Cuban experts in charge of evaluating the evolution of the coronavirus in Cuba estimate thatThere will be a peak in confirmed and deceased numbers in the coming weeks. The situation could improve towards the end of September.
Raúl Guinovart, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Havana, explained that according to mathematical models the country will continue to have a high incidence of cases in the coming days (above 7,500).
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