July 10, 2023, 6:00 AM
July 10, 2023, 6:00 AM
“San Carlos Health Center. We came to give my wife an antibiotic and they couldn’t give it to her because they didn’t have a syringe. Imagine anaphylactic shock, an emergency injection, and there is no syringe. Who will be responsible for this? ”, A neighbor from the 12 de Octubre neighborhood spread his claim.
For the complainant, the deficiency is a sign of carelessness and irresponsibility from a health point of view, and he regretted that they also charged him to give the injection.
The director of the aforementioned health center, Joyce Andrea Montezuma Espinoza, came out to respond to the viral claim. Regarding the complaint of lack of supplies, she clarified that the patient belongs to the closed insurance of the Caja Petrolera de Salud (CPS), and that the medication was prescribed at another facility.
He assured that attention was paid, that the remedy was going to be placed, but indicated that they could not use the supplies intended for users of the Single Health Insurance (SUS).
“It was very kindly explained to him that he had to take his syringe for us to continue providing care because our supplies are for SUS patients, or who have an emergency or urgency, and it was not the case,” he said.
Faced with the questioning of the lack of supplies, Montezuma took the trouble to show the stock of that first-level center. “Here I have the evidence that we do have syringes. There are boxes of ten units, we have stock, and they are full, ”he clarified through a video.
health summit
Regarding the complaint of lack of medicines and other supplies, from the San Carlos Health Center itself, Kadija Ovando, executive secretary of the Federation of Unions of Public Health Medical Branches (Fesirmes Santa Cruz), reported that currently from that instance information is being collected.
He explained that data is being collected from Fesirmes in the five hospitals, and in the four health networks.
According to Ovando, this work would have to conclude today, and all the results would be raised before a health summit, but that not only involves the authorities, but the population in general.
“We do not want this type of situation to be repeated,” he said about the denunciation of the deficiencies in the San Carlos Center, and assured that the idea is that the health system, in all its establishments, provide what is necessary to all Santa Cruz residents, “whether public security or social security.”
He assured that as Fesirmes they will ask for reports, and the necessary releases to support medical professionals.
He recalled that doctors and nurses are the first to receive mistreatment from the population, “rightly upset by administrative negligence.”
According to Ovando, it is not an exclusive responsibility of the municipal Mayor’s Office, since this data survey, carried out jointly with the Municipal Government, has been able to show all kinds of deficiencies.
“Without going very far, now that it’s raining, in some health centers it can be seen that it rains more inside than outside,” he said, adding that insecurity is added to this, since thugs enter the posts, etc. to steal, and they empty the stock to such an extent that when a stabbed arrives in an emergency, they do not have the necessary supplies to attend to it.
“The same population is already tired. This goes from light to dark, which gives us the reason for what we have been denouncing for a long time, ”she stressed.
DATA
Bureaucracy
According to the explanation of the director of the San Carlos Health Center, it could be understood that a social security patient would have to go to one of those establishments to
receive care, even if you are a neighbor of the health centers of the public system.
Town hall
It is in charge of the first level centers, whether they are 24 hours or 12.
Infrastructure
According to the statements of the executive secretary of Fesirmes, due to the lack of inputs
Added to this is the poor state of the health center facilities, and also the security problem, since they are unguarded and exposed to theft of the little stock with which
count.
