“I have known Guillermo for many years, I put it on record. He was a student of mine when I started my teaching career at the University of Buenos Aires ”. President Alberto Fernández recalled this Tuesday, at the inauguration of the Mar del Plata modular hospital, a time that Mayor Guillermo Montenegro usually cites as the beginning of his relationship with the president. “He was a good student”, added.
It was not the only wink that the President made from the Olivos residence to the communal chief. “I must confess that he is very persistent in his requests. I know, “Carli” Bianco (the head of the Buenos Aires Cabinet), our chief of staff, Santiago Cafiero … “, he listed.
Thus, Fernández returned to a comment he had already made on July 17, in the announcement of the latest extension of the quarantine. This time the framework was different: the President led by videoconference the opening of the René Favaloro hospital in La Matanza, where Governor Axel Kicillof was present, and four modular hospitals: in addition to Mar del Plata, those of Chaco, Córdoba and Santa Fe.
Fernández mentioned that Mar del Plata “Thank God he doesn’t have cases (of coronavirus) from other parts of the country.” And he noted that he understands the mayor when he says he needs more openings. “The truth is that we want to do it, but we want to do it very seriously, because it is true that Mar del Plata, thanks to God, is not experiencing problems, but we also want it not to live ”, added.
The first president, who in Olivos was accompanied by the Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis, immediately warned: “We are very far from having passed the problem of the pandemic.” And he argued that “It requires very prudent because the virus is circulating.”
“That is why one is so reluctant to this logic of openness,” he said, “because you see how infections are growing, how those beds are being occupied, how intensive therapy is growing, how many are left on the road, and what you want is to prevent people from getting infected, getting sick or dying. “
Along these lines, Fernández asked the people of Mar del Plata “Don’t be mad at Guillermo” and “think there are a few in the national government” who are “looking at the entire film, not isolated photographs.” And that movie shows
“A focus in the Metropolitan Area that transmits contagion to the rest of the country”.
In the official broadcast of the event, the first speeches came from the town of Rafael Castillo, in La Matanza, where, according to the President, a “mega hospital” was opened. Cafiero, present together with Kicillof and the mayor, Fernando Espinoza, highlighted “the work of the medical team and of the health workers who put their passion for public health.”
Governor Jorge Capitanich spoke from Chaco. From Córdoba, Juan Schiaretti, and from Santa Fe, Omar Perotti. Then it was the turn of Montenegro, who mentioned that the modular hospital in Mar del Plata “Is the demonstration
of joint work at the national, provincial and municipal levels ”.
“When we started, many did not believe that it could be done in such a short time, and I think we demonstrated that this can be done in a time of pandemic, which is very complex,” he said.
The one of the joint work between the three jurisdictions was the common thread of his speech. “Everything that was done from all levels gave us the opportunity to prepare ourselves, and it seems to me that it has to leave us as a teaching to continue working together beyond differences,” he said, an obvious allusion to partisan differences.
“I really feel very comforted about what we have been doing in our city at all levels.
Alberto, you know that I am very insistent, ”said Montenegro. “But you are not the only one who knows it. Gabriel also knows it (by Katopodis), whom I drive crazy, here I have Carlitos Bianco, who is the head of the Cabinet of the province, whom I also drive crazy, the governor, the government minister, Teresa (García) ”He basted. AND The official broadcast showed how the President was smiling.
Then, the mayor explained that he proceeds “thinking about what is best” for the citizens of Mar del Plata. And, after “embracing the relatives of the victims of this pandemic” and insisting on social responsibility and “compliance with protocols,” he took on the role of speaking on behalf of the people of Mar del Plata when the first president returned to address: “Thank you very much for everything that was done and what is being done. This is showing what wood we are made of. You have to keep going. And the only way to keep going is to push and all together. ”
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