Rio gallegos registered this Monday a sensation ends -14°. Icy streets and snowfall last week made much of Santa Cruz I lived a winter like old times, with cold that had not been seen, at least, since the pandemic. These temperatures, as always, bring with them some respiratory issues. Added to this is the COVID 19 picture, with a pandemic that did not end, although its alert has already been canceled by the WHO.
Health Minister Claudio Garcia was interviewed by the program The mediatorwhich is broadcast on Weather FM 97.5, where he asked the community to continue taking care of themselves and preventing respiratory diseases. In any case, he did not overlook the other complications that these climates generate. “We are on alert for various issues, not only the infectious one. Urban accidents, the accident rate and the risk of fractures. The difficult and complex nature of the route, we have many factors in addition to the usual ones in these times,” he indicated in the first place.
“Regarding vaccination, you have to continue vaccinating against the flu and against pneumococcus,” he said, now referring to the purely health issue.
Regarding COVID, García indicated that although the amount of contagion has decreased significantly “it does not cease to be a risk.”
“The current indication is to get vaccinated, mainly those over 50 years of age have to have vaccines against COVID if 6 months have elapsed since the last dose. The general parameter is that we are not talking about the number of doses, but rather that people under 50 years of age must do so annually, “he stressed.
“What we do is enforce the parameters. They will find vaccines against the flu and we vaccinate against COVID. The number of these vaccination criteria is less, but we always take advantage of the health opportunity and vaccination devices will be seen in each action, because it is necessary to have the regular vaccine and the complete schedule,” García said.
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“There was an important moment of vaccination against the flu. For people at risk, we simultaneously update the vaccination schedule. We add COVID in corresponding cases,” said the head of the health portfolio.
García remarked that the request is currently being made that those who do not have all the calendar vaccines complete it and “every time we have an opportunity, evaluate the children”, indicating that the sanitary control and vaccination operations continue throughout the territory.
The minister indicated that during his tenure, a large part of the efforts were made to contain the pandemic. “The pandemic overwhelmed our operational capacity,” he acknowledged.
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On the other hand, he highlighted the priority given to prevention in the province. He stated that there is misinformation about the availability of mammography equipment in the North Zone, assuring that all towns have them. He also mentioned that they have managed the placement of more devices, before the national government.
In addition, he highlighted the different preventive procedures promoted in the localities and the improvement in infant and maternal mortality indicators, stating that they have the best rates in these aspects. He attributed part of these achievements to the increase in health professionals hired during his administration and to “significant political will.”
“There must be a professional who reads images. This must be digitized so that mammograms that are performed in another location can be read. But all hospitals in ZN have them and, logically, there are in the private sphere.”
“We have the lowest infant mortality in the history of Santa Cruz. We are among the best provinces, the same in maternal mortality. We have the best indicators in maternal mortality. The criticism is that things are missing, but let’s remember that we have been managing half of the pandemic for 3 years and still have historical markers for the province,” García closed.
2023-07-24 16:16:00
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