From 6:00 this Wednesday the population of the municipality of Montero will indefinitely install three blocking points on the route to the north, that connects the department of Santa Cruz with Cochabamba. This measure is given to demand the authorization of the third level hospital Oscar Urenda, which has been closed for seven months.
It was in the Norteñidad Assembly where the presidents of the Civic Committees, in coordination with councilors and the mayor of Montero, Regys Medina, who decided to carry out this pressure measure to demand that the national government reopen the hospital.
Hugo Serrate, president of the Civic Committee of Montero, indicated that among the five determinations of the meeting, it was agreed to install an indefinite blockade on the road to the north to ask the Ministry of Health and Sports to permanently open the Óscar Urenda hospital.
“We also ask that health professionals from the integrated north be taken into account. We have already exhausted all instances of dialogue, That is why we have determined this pressure measure, where all sectors are participating. We are all upset that the hospital is only there to see you and not to treat the sick,” he said.
Serrate indicated that there are more than 500 thousand people in the integrated north who have to be treated at the third-level hospital in Montero, which would help decongest hospitals in the capital of Santa Cruz.
The civic groups, together with the population of Montería and the sectors that support this pressure measure, will install three blockade points starting at 6:00 this Wednesday: one at the height of the Bridge of Naranjal, another in Puesto Méndez and the last in the Óscar Urenda hospital.
