The Minister of Health, María Begoña Yarza, once again met the interpellation that will take place on August 1 in the Chamber of Deputies, an occasion that the Secretary of State described as an “opportunity” to give an account of the work carried out .
The Chamber approved by 80 votes in favor and 46 against the interpellation against the head of the Minsal. Behind this action is Chile Vamos and its intention is to learn about Minister Yarza’s roadmap for handling the pandemic.
The issues for which Minister Yarza will be consulted cover health contingency measures and also the controversy caused by the decision to advance the winter holidays, where even President Boric himself called both his portfolio and that of Education to better coordination.
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Dr. Yarza stated, in conversation with The Mercury of Valparaisothat “the anticipation of vacations was an extraordinary measure, when we actually had the entire health system deployed with this complexity, with covid, with chronic diseases.”
The head of the Health portfolio stressed that “the page is turned” and stated that “it has been very visible to everyone that the decision made by the Minsal was correct.”
“We saw how, thanks to those few days that we anticipated, which were five, we were able to break the transmission curve and that meant that our children began to reduce their presence in emergency services and later in critical beds,” Minister Yarza explained. to the morning
Previously, in conversation with meganews, the undersecretary of Healthcare Networks, Fernando Araos, also addressed the issue. As he commented, the decision to bring forward the school break “is positive so far”, since today it has meant “an approximately 50% decrease in child respiratory emergencies and an 8% decrease in the occupancy of child ICU beds “.
