COVID-19 report and Bayamón institution

A piece of COVID-19 at the Bayamón corrective institution affected 143 confined, was informed this night.

Of these, 141 were assisted by the Secretariat of the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (DRC), Ana Escobar Pabón.

The bridge is specified in module 1 of the Bayamón 501 Correctional Institution.

Dos of the infected are collected in a hospital institution.

“I was notified of this situation later. The report of the Correctional Physician, summarizing the medical services in the DCR, details that the situation was identified last March, 28 when it was announced that a positive correctional official had been contacted with five confidants. All are working in the pool area of ​​Bayamón Correctional Complex. These confined contacts have been made with members of the Module 1 population, in which case molecular tests are carried out in the living unit where conviv. Hoy, tenemos is the result and we work together with the Department of Health to maintain control ”, indicates Escobar Pabón.

The agency activates the vigilant protocol and all those affected are in Islam by the next 14 days and are awaited by the medical staff of the institution. Molecular tests are carried out on the rest of the correctional population in the Bayamón 501 institution and on the security and civilian personnel who may be involved.

As additional means within the institution, Escobar determines the use of inexhaustible amounts to distribute food, the cancellation of transfers from and to the institution. In addition, the civilian staff will work in a remote manner and send additional protection equipment to employees of potential contacts.

Regarding visits to the Bayamón 501 institution, the governmental functionary states that the measures are agreed upon with the executive order vigant and have been completed during the quarantine period. In addition to ensuring that the Correctional Physician has active staff 24 hours a day to attend any syndrome that presents the corrective population and prevents the virus from spreading to other institutions of the correctional system.

“He has been at the disposal of the Department of Correction to all the epidemiology staff to wait for the emergence and trace the route to follow to contain the contagios. On the part of the Department of Health, we will provide the necessary tests and treatment to ensure the situation and guarantee the health of all in the correctional system ”, Carlos Mellado López, Secretary of Health.

“Congratulations to the Secretary of State for the Department of Health, Carlos Mellado and his staff working on this matter during this process,” concluded Escobar Pabón.