After reporting that 193 deaths from Covid-19 were reported in the last 24 hours, so they total 3,353, and in terms of infections the number rose to 33,460 cases; one thousand 938 more than the day before, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, asked Mexicans to be creative in celebrating the Mother’s day at a distance and avoid visiting moms and grandmothers.
“May 10 is an emblematic date and I would like to remember that we must be especially careful, we are eager to go out on the public highway, but tomorrow we will take care of mothers and grandmothers in particular, because they are moments of maximum risk, we are in the period of the highest transmission and if we go out, visit them or try to reunite the family, we are going to cause harm to them and to the entire population. Tomorrow we have to find all the creative mechanisms to be around moms and grandmothers, but not visit them, “he said.
In turn, Lorena Rodríguez-Bores Ramírez, technical secretary of the National Council for Mental Health, presented a strategy to address the mental health of medical personnel who attend to patients with the SarsCov2 virus every day.
“It is normal that medical personnel are afraid of contagion, their loved ones, they feel anxiety, fear, sadness, so it is important to have strategies to address their mental health,” he said.
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He added that this strategy seeks to “take care of those who take care of us”, since if the well-being of health personnel is promoted, it contributes to providing better medical care “and that is what we are looking for, we do not want the system to collapse, but rather that there is a good control of the epidemic so that later we all contribute to social reconstruction ”.
The official explained that doctors, nurses and other health professionals will be able to enter the microsite dedicated to Covid-19 where they will find two
numbers in which emotional crises are attended, as well as emergency suicide risk that specialized personnel will be in charge of taking calls.
They will also be able to access a free screening that explores the symptoms to see if there is a possibility of having a mental health syndrome or not.
“If there is no risk, a self-care promotion is granted, if the risk is moderate, they are referred virtually to some services according to risk, and in cases of medium-high risk, they will be referred to 4 virtual clinics that will be being answered by psychologists and psychiatrists, health personnel can call
the line of life, the reference is made, the appointment is scheduled and the treatment will be provided, ”he said.
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