2024-01-18 02:06:57
By Gerson David Hincapié, journalist from Cali
The Cali Health Secretariat reported that occupancy in the city’s hospital network is over 80%, as a result of the epidemiological situation due to dengue and Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI).
The best scenario does not exist, acknowledged the head of the organization, Germán Escobar, but he clarified that it does not reach a critical level at which it is necessary to think regarding an urgent hospital expansion.
The Mayor’s Office asked to eliminate all possible mosquito breeding sites, since a mosquito can lay around 1,000 eggs in a month. | Photo: Atlántico Governorate
“About dengue, please help us detect and eliminate these possible breeding grounds for mosquitoes, such as water in buckets, in containers; “We have detected many houses with this type of water,” he revealed.
Likewise, on the IRA side, he established that vaccination is key, so he asked Cali residents to contact their EPS and vaccination centers to go and get immunized, especially once morest influenza and Covid-19, regarding which There are more than 17,000 bivalent vaccines available in the city.
They seek to strengthen the hospital network
On this Wednesday morning, Mayor Alejandro Eder visited the headquarters of the Ministry of Health in the San Fernando neighborhood to discuss strategic issues to benefit the provision of health services in the city.
This idea was supported by the Council. Alexandra Hernández, a member of the Cabildo, said that the public network is at a disadvantage in several aspects, such as infrastructure, quality of care and the number of specialists.
“One knows first-hand that the entire hospital network remains congested, for example, for services with specialists there is always a delay of six months, eight months and even a year,” commented Hernández.
And he proposed that “a public-private alliance be made so that the private sector helps strengthen the public network. For example, the HUV (Hospital Universitario del Valle) today has a great oncology service, so it can provide those services to private institutions, receives remuneration and becomes financially stronger.”
The councilor also spoke regarding the need to review the management of the State Social Enterprises (ESE), and that while some give great results, others have difficulties.
Faced with this panorama, the Secretary of Health, Germán Escobar, announced that work will be done to establish a hospital network in the Cali City Region, in which agents such as the EPS, academia and other strategic partners are articulated.
“We want to project this network to expand it more, to make it more solid, to have greater financial solidity, but also so that it is closer to users and has higher quality. We are thinking regarding strategies, for example, for accessibility to appointments at decentralized points, that is, that users do not necessarily have to go to the ESE, but rather strengthen virtual, telephone and other service channels,” said the official.
Likewise, he referred to the current situation of the ESCOs, indicating that they have had ups and downs in their administrations recently and that there is concern for two of these entities.
Mayor Alejandro Eder met with the Ministry of Health to talk regarding current issues and strategic projects. | Photo: El País
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