Inhabitants of Lara denounce precariousness in the state health centers due to the lack of supplies to deal with emergencies.
As they point out, those who live in isolated sectors or foreign municipalities must go to the Antonio María Pineda Central Hospital in Barquisimeto to be treated. In addition, they complain that they must do it in private units, since they do not have ambulances either, he reviewed. Lara’s Press.
In this sense, the former regional director of Health, Ruy Medina, urged the regional and national authorities to invest in the qualification of more assistance centers in the state.
“The government must invest more in hospitals. They must ensure primary care, preventing the majority from ending up referred to the Central Hospital of Barquisimeto », he said.
At the same time, he stressed that there are diseases such as acute appendicitis that can be serious if not treated in time.
“We continue to endure and serve semi-privately, due to the purchase of a list of supplies made by relatives of the patients,” he added.
No supplies in Lara health centers
For their part, among the citizen complaints they assure that the municipal outpatient centers of Lara do not have basic supplies such as sutures.
“The health center does not have suture material and primary care for parturients,” said patients not lying in the Juan Daza Pereira health centers in Barquisimeto, the Humocaro Alto medical center in Morán, and the Santa Inés Hospital in Urdaneta.
Another recent complaint was made by the leader Marisol Bustamante on social networks. “How is it possible that an injured person in an accident was not treated because he did not have sutures?” She said regarding the case of a young man who required sutures in the head and might not receive care at the Juan Daza Pereira hospital.
With information from Lara’s Press.
