Without vacancies or basic pharmacies to combat the COVID-19, the main public hospitals of Paraguay are collapsing the hospitals and are unable to receive patients in intensive care units.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health announced that it had suspended indefinitely all of the surgical interventions in public hospitals all over the country to address emergency room care against the pandemic.
Although the new coronavirus has already covered the life of 3,218 people, a figure much lower than that of its neighbors in the region, Paraguay has been provided with basic medicines and medicines.
‘We do not have radiographic sites, nasogastric probes, we do not have basic medicines … We do not call them. Decimos basta al gobierno ”, said the neurologist Carlos Morínigo, Chief Respiratory Officer of the National Institute of Respiratory and Ambient Sources (Ineram), the best equipped in Asuncion.
Morinigo and a veterinarian of medicine and nurses demonstrate in front of the hospital blocking the call in intermittent form. Family physicians are familiar with nurses who are involved in intensive therapy that includes “Queremos insumos” and “Basta de injusticia”.
Morínigo admits that the medicines are not sold in the local market and that the failure of sums is that the population “lives in a relationship situation, playing football and volleyball between friends, without social distance or respecting the sanitation protocol”.
The director of Ineram, Felipe González, told the Radioemisoras de Asunción that he had put his cargo at the disposal of the Ministry of Health “because he had no medication and the person had contact with the hospital”. Aggregate that I did not receive a reply from the Ministry.
Gladys Martínez, who has been in intensive care at Ineram, told The Associated Press by phone that he would be looking at atracurio and medazolam drugs (a muscle relaxant and a sedative) for 24 hours during treatment. five million guarantors (850 dollars). This is a disaster ”.
María Cristina González, who accompanies her intern at the same medical center since January 14, said that “between other relatives and friends gathered 60 million guarantors (9,000 dollars) to buy the medicines”.
Thus, President Mario Abdo Benítez shared on his Facebook account a video stating that the country has had good results in the content and treatment of COVID-19.
In a public act in the city of Caacupé, 55 kilometers from the Asuncion, the mandate states that “if my contagion is increased at Ineram because there are the best doctors”.
Two weeks after the Russian Inversion Fund launched in Paraguay, 4,000 doses of one million requests for the Sputnik V flag. .
In parallel, Paraguay hopes to reach the tens of thousands of vehicles working through the COVAX system, created by the United Nations and various international organizations to guarantee equitable munitions for the COVID-19.
Paraguay, with 7.6 million, has a registration of now 161,530 cases of new coronavirus.