Government assures that Bs 3 million were allocated to care for those injured in blockades

“We have allocated three million bolivianos to be able to help the people who are stuck in the blockades,” said the Minister of Health, María Renée Castro, at a press conference this Tuesday afternoon.

The authority regretted that, despite having the resources and capacity to bring health care to the roads, the people who impede the passage do not allow doctors to circulate. nor the transfer of medicines and ambulances, which must be used to help injured and sick people. that require prompt health care.

“They do not allow us to take two tablets, two blister packs of metformin to a patient; They do not allow us to carry other blister packs of antihypertensive medications to our hypertensive patients. Imagine how hard it is for us to try to get food, how difficult it is, and I repeat it is something that has never been seen anywhere, to attack medical personnel, pursue them and detain them,” Castro said.

The health personnel who were sent to care for the population reported that They were detained and threatened, their backpacks were taken and the first aid kits containing pills, injectables, syringes and supplies were inspected to be able to serve the population.

Castro recalled that health personnel, when caring for an injured or sick person, are only interested in help him to a health center so that he receives the respective care, because their instruction is to fight for health and life.

Last week in Parotani the passage of medical aid was also restricted and today (10/29/2024) the same thing happened this Tuesday in Mairana, where the passage of ambulances, doctors and essential medicine for the population was prevented, the ambulances were stoned in their attempt to evacuate the patients to access medical care and the doctors were persecuted.