Vice President Alfredo Borrero visited several hospitals and stated that there is a 76% to 82% supply of medical supplies.
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Vice President Alfredo Borrero toured, last Monday and this Tuesday, several hospitals, health centers and vaccination centers in the province of Loja. During his visit to the Benjamín Carrión national theater, where immunization against COVID-19 is applied, he applied some doses to children and young people. However, the official acknowledged that he hoped to find more citizens to be inoculated.
At the Isidro Ayora hospital, where the press was prohibited from entering, he stated that he verified the supply of medicines and the operation of the health center. However, some users complained about the lack of medical supplies and drugs.
In addition, Borrero received criticism during his visit to the Manuel Ygnacio Monteros hospital, of the IESS, where until last weekend there was “not even omeprazole,” according to one of the patients. who stayed in that health home for two days, after a stone surgery.
David Zúñiga, an official from the IESS hospital, indicated that the second president will be informed about the ‘collapse’ that the institution is experiencing and the repowering process that they have waited for several years.
Governor Mario Mancino stated that during the tour it has been found that in all hospitals there is paracetamol, ibuprofen, among others.
A good part of this allocation of medicines was from this emergency purchase made by the national government (for $19 million) and in other cases it was due to the hospitals’ own planning. I saw with my own eyes the full warehouses, full dispensaries and the supply of vital, essential and non-essential medicines, which are over 85%
Mario Mancino, governor of Loja.
Upon leaving the IESS hospital, the vice president referred to the citizen complaints reported by the journalists. “I know when they paint the wall the day before, I realize it. We see that some hospitals have chronic problems because 40 years have passed and they need to go into repowering. On the subject of medications, there is 76% to 82% coverage of supplies and we have verified in the Isidro Ayora hospital, in which I asked a lady for a prescription and all the medications were dispensed”, said the vice president.
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In addition, Borrero announced that in the coming months ambulances will be provided to the province of Loja and the process of repowering some hospitals and health centers throughout the country will begin.
He added that it is important to control the amounts allocated to the vaccination plan, which at the national level has immunized 13.1 million inhabitants with two doses and about 2 million with the booster, according to figures from the Ministry of Health with a court date. January 17.
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“We have vaccines, which is the most important thing, of course it has to be controlled,” he said.
The vice president had planned to meet with several mayors from the province of Loja in the canton of Macará, but he suspended the appointment due to the COVID-19 infection of mayor Alfredo Suquilanda. (I)
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