The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzottidelivered this Thursday in Jujuy 11 ambulances to strengthen the public health system and recognized the health personnel of the province at the Pablo Soria hospital for the work carried out in times of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This is the first time that 4×4 ambulances are delivered from the Nation with that vision of knowing that the country is diverse, that ambulances are needed at strategic points and, given the geography of Jujuy, these five 4×4 ambulances are going to be key for municipalities that really need them,” Vizzotti said.
The minister led the ceremony in the Cultural City, located in the Alto Padilla neighborhood, together with the governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Moraleswhere he also pointed out that “they are 344 ambulances that are distributed equallywith equity throughout the country.
“Each province receives what it needs and not by mathematical division or by the number of inhabitants. Jujuy is receiving double the ambulances it would have received if they were distributed by population,” he said.
In this framework, he expressed his “absolute conviction of the federal work with the provinces”, with “more than 70 meetings of the Federal Health Council since the first day of management going through the most important humanitarian crisis of the last 100 years” in reference to the coronavirus pandemic.
In this regard, he considered that “regardless of the political colors of the provinces, we have been able to focus on coincidences and work for the health of the population.”
He also stressed that thanks to the vaccine against Covid-19 “we are in a totally different stage of the pandemic” in which “we will continue to strengthen the health system”.
On the other hand, Vizzotti congratulated Jujuy for the national measles, rubella, mumps and poliomyelitis campaign since “from the first day Jujuy was on point and is the only province that exceeded 90% vaccination” when coverage “at country reaches 66% with several provinces that exceeded 80%”.
Morales in his speech pondered “all the work being done by this great health team that the republic has that valued the strength of our public care system.”
In this tone, he was convinced that “there is a State present” fundamentally in areas such as health, security and public education.
“This is the path that must be taken, and this delivery reaffirms that concept of strengthening the public health system throughout the territory,” he said.
Jujuy carries out a transformation of your health system through which it intends to decentralize and regionalize it, and to this is added this fleet of vehicles to reach the most distant towns in the province.
“These ambulances will allow all people to exercise their right to health and also access high complexity,” said the Minister of Health of Jujuy, Antonio Buljubasich.
Subsequently, the authorities moved to the Pablo Soria hospital, the province’s main center, where health personnel were recognized, who was personified in the nurse Sergio Humana who died of Covid during the pandemic.
Vizzotti, accompanied by the Secretary of Equity in Health, Victor Urbanigave Humana’s daughter, Laura, a print of the artistic work “Pasaje Soles”, from the Malbrán Institute.
He also delivered a copy so that it remains on guard at the Hospital.
“This collective construction is very exciting, one link after another to generate important things in each one based on what happened to us, which served to unite us in something so complicated and so uncertain that nobody thought it was going to live,” he said. Vizzotti and urged “to continue working for people’s health.”
The minister also congratulated the artist Rolando Veliz, who painted the mural alluding to the health of the province in the town of Pampa Blanca.
In the mural called “Reaching every corner of my country” measuring 7.5×3.5 meters, the health personnel of Jujuy are represented with aboriginal features.
