Claims and complaints from health workers and users due to lack of medicines in two Manabi hospitals

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The health workers of the basic hospital of Jipijapa came together to make a claim due to the lack of medicines and medical supplies in this health house, located south of Manabí.

Added to that complaint was the claim for the transfer of an ambulance from the Jipijapa hospital to the Santa Ana canton. Leonor Díaz, a health worker at this hospital, told several media outlets in this city that there are problems due to a lack of medical supplies. and medicines and that when this health house is visited by provincial or national authorities it is ‘made up’ so that its deficiencies are not observed.

“We are claiming for many things, there is no medicine, no medical supplies in warehouses or pharmacies… what we ask is that what needs to be corrected be corrected,” Morán said.

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The posters carried by users and health workers complained about the urgency of having medical supplies, since users had to buy some of them when they required some medical assistance at the Jipijapa basic hospital.

Adriana Zambrano, director of this hospital, recognized in an interview given to the news Hippie TV, of that Manabi canton, that this health house is in the process of contracting and acquiring both supplies and medicines, and those that would even begin to arrive this week.”

“Our hospital has a supply of 50% of medical devices and medicines, we are in the acquisition of processes. The processes cannot be carried out from one day to the next, they take between 30 to 45 days, if there is no obstacle,” the official told the television news program.

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In contrast, at the Rafael Rodríguez Zambrano contingency hospital in Manta, over the weekend a document sent by an official from that health center circulated on social networks, addressed to those who administer this hospital and in which they exposed the lack of shortage of medicines and that there was even no paper to perform electrocardiograms.

Jorge Luis Zambrano, manager of that hospital, told radio Kandela FM, de Manta, who had not known about the dissemination of that document on social networks, and recognized that, as in the case of the Jipijapense hospital, the Rafael Rodríguez Zambrano hospital is also currently in the acquisition process for the acquisition of laboratory supplies and other necessary items.

“The contracting processes in public entities have their time, which must be respected… we are currently in validation with suppliers that have arrived and offered”, Zambrano declared.

In the case of the Jipijapa hospital, the Manabi assemblywoman María Gabriela Molina, through a letter addressed to Ximena Garzón, Minister of Health, requested information on the protest carried out due to the lack of medicines and medical supplies and even alleged lack of personnel and security in said health home.

Juan Francisco Núñez, governor of Manabí, indicated that in the next few days there will be an important announcement on the issue of medicines in the health system.

“I would like the official announcement to be made so that we can pronounce on it, that historical solution that has been given in the hospitals of Ecuador will be important, not only in the province of Manabí, and in this way we can unlock this problem of shortages that has been given not only”, said Núñez. (I)