The Ministry of Health of the province of Buenos Aires invested last month 488,500,000 pesos in equipment for hospitalswhich will allow health professionals to carry out more complex practices, reported the health portfolio.
In this sense, the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, stated that “in just one month we were able to provide dozens of hospitals with extremely high-cost equipment that come to transform the passage of neighbors through the health system”.
Kreplak indicated that this translated in anesthesia tables, obstetric and gynecological equipment, C-arms, among other elements.
Anesthesia tables were distributed in 25 hospitals, which is “a historic purchase by the Buenos Aires state at a cost of more than 165 million pesos,” said the health portfolio of the province of Buenos Aires.
The Ministry detailed, in addition, that echocardiographers, with an amount of more than 25 million pesos; ultrasound machines, with an investment of 21 million pesos, and video colonoscopes, video colscopes and video bronchoscopes, among others, for approximately 20 million pesos.
Also, the hospitals “Meléndez” in Adrogué and “San Martín” in La Plata acquired “Arcos en C” for an amount greater than 27 million pesos.
Kreplak stressed that the delivery of hospital equipment “It is constant and responds to a decision by Governor Axel Kicillof whose objective is to recover the years of the previous administrationthat they did so much damage to the infrastructures, to the equipment and also to the salaries of the workers ”.
“All this, we are repairing it. Every day we have improvements in the system which translate into better access to health for the people of Buenos Aires”, remarked Kreplak.
For her part, the executive director of the San Martín de La Plata hospital, Graciela Ramos, indicated that one of the C-shaped arches was assigned to the surgical center of said institution. and that adds to another delivered months ago.
“The Ministry also detailed that echocardiographs were acquired, with an amount of more than 25 million pesos; ultrasound machines, with an investment of 21 million pesos, and videocolonoscopes, videocolscopes and videobronchoscopes, among others, for approximately 20 million pesos”
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He stated that both teams they are last generation and that thanks to these investments the hospital once again positioned itself at the technological forefront.
The total investment also includes low complexity equipment, such as monitors, sphygmomanometers, defibrillators and transducers; and refrigerators, mattresses, beds, wheelchairs, walkers, among other supplies.
