By: Eduardo Ruilowa
Civics and residents of the Integrated North decided to start Pressure measures to demand the reopening of the Óscar Urenda hospital, which has been closed for four months. They gave a deadline until today for the authorities to comply with the commissioning, otherwise they will block the roads.
The measure was confirmed by the president of the Montero Civic Committee, Hugo Serrate, who reported that in a meeting held yesterday the mobilizations announced the previous week were ratified. “We are going to do a 24-hour lockout, starting early Wednesday morning and, if we do not have a rapprochement with the authorities of the national government and the Interior, we are going to toughen the measures, “said the civic.
Serrate said that this Tuesday they will announce the measure in the Committee for Santa Cruz, where they will announce the decision to go to a road blockade.
This third level hospital, which was built in Montero to cover the northern area of the department, started working in June 2020, during the first wave of the pandemic to assist patients with Covid-19. It was a reference hospital in the previous waves.
The former director of this hospital, Roberto Soliz, recalled that this hospital closed in the first weeks of September 2021.
“The hospital has been closed since September 21. The last patient was admitted on August 31. From that date it no longer has any staff. I left office on September 29 and they sent me to the Alfonso Gumucio hospital, “said the doctor.
Soliz regrets that the hospital is not treating the population, despite the fact that this fourth wave is breaking the record of infections and more spaces are needed in intensive care.
“It is a giant hospital with a capacity for 200 beds. It has 7 operating rooms, 12 beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for adults and 12 beds in the pediatric ICU, 16 emergency beds, nephrology service with 12 hemodialysis machines and other services. In addition, it has a linear accelerator for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, it is a pity that it is closed, “said Soliz.
Deadline expires
Last week the civic committees of the Integrated North Block, institutions, social sectors and civil society met in an extraordinary emergency assembly to make determinations about the Covid-19 emergency and request the reopening of this hospital.
At this meeting, it was decided to give a deadline to the national government and the departmental government to solve this need, the same one that expires today.
According to Fabiola Alba, leader of District 2 of Montero and president of Social Control, they sent a letter to the Ministry of Health to request the reopening of the center, but so far they have not received a response.
Along the same lines, the president of the Montero Civic Committee stated that they made the request known to the Ministry of Health, the Government of Santa Cruz and other authorities.
The Government did not pronounce itself yesterday on this subject. However, on previous occasions, the Secretary of Health, Fernando Pacheco, indicated that they hope “that the Ministry of Health assumes the competence that corresponds to it, which is the hiring of doctors ”for the reopening of the center.
For his part, the Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, indicated that the Government did not contemplate in its 2022 budget resources for the start-up of this hospital, which is why that State portfolio will initiate actions to guarantee its reopening.
“We have made constant requests for the Government to fulfill its Obligation to take charge of a third-level hospital that the national government has built, which we have delivered and is equipped, it has to fulfill the function of making it work ”, added Auza.
By: Eduardo Ruilowa
Civics and residents of the Integrated North decided to start Pressure measures to demand the reopening of the Óscar Urenda hospital, which has been closed for four months. They gave a deadline until today for the authorities to comply with the commissioning, otherwise they will block the roads.
The measure was confirmed by the president of the Montero Civic Committee, Hugo Serrate, who reported that in a meeting held yesterday the mobilizations announced the previous week were ratified. “We are going to do a 24-hour lockout, starting early Wednesday morning and, if we do not have a rapprochement with the authorities of the national government and the Interior, we are going to toughen the measures, “said the civic.
Serrate said that this Tuesday they will announce the measure in the Committee for Santa Cruz, where they will announce the decision to go to a road blockade.
This third level hospital, which was built in Montero to cover the northern area of the department, started working in June 2020, during the first wave of the pandemic to assist patients with Covid-19. It was a reference hospital in the previous waves.
The former director of this hospital, Roberto Soliz, recalled that this hospital closed in the first weeks of September 2021.
“The hospital has been closed since September 21. The last patient was admitted on August 31. From that date it no longer has any staff. I left office on September 29 and they sent me to the Alfonso Gumucio hospital, “said the doctor.
Soliz regrets that the hospital is not treating the population, despite the fact that this fourth wave is breaking the record of infections and more spaces are needed in intensive care.
“It is a giant hospital with a capacity for 200 beds. It has 7 operating rooms, 12 beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for adults and 12 beds in the pediatric ICU, 16 emergency beds, nephrology service with 12 hemodialysis machines and other services. In addition, it has a linear accelerator for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, it is a pity that it is closed, “said Soliz.
Deadline expires
Last week the civic committees of the Integrated North Block, institutions, social sectors and civil society met in an extraordinary emergency assembly to make determinations about the Covid-19 emergency and request the reopening of this hospital.
At this meeting, it was decided to give a deadline to the national government and the departmental government to solve this need, the same one that expires today.
According to Fabiola Alba, leader of District 2 of Montero and president of Social Control, they sent a letter to the Ministry of Health to request the reopening of the center, but so far they have not received a response.
Along the same lines, the president of the Montero Civic Committee stated that they made the request known to the Ministry of Health, the Government of Santa Cruz and other authorities.
The Government did not pronounce itself yesterday on this subject. However, on previous occasions, the Secretary of Health, Fernando Pacheco, indicated that they hope “that the Ministry of Health assumes the competence that corresponds to it, which is the hiring of doctors ”for the reopening of the center.
For his part, the Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, indicated that the Government did not contemplate in its 2022 budget resources for the start-up of this hospital, which is why that State portfolio will initiate actions to guarantee its reopening.
“We have made constant requests for the Government to fulfill its Obligation to take charge of a third-level hospital that the national government has built, which we have delivered and is equipped, it has to fulfill the function of making it work ”, added Auza.
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