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The former Minister of Health of the Government of Michelle Bachelet Helia Molina (PPD) warned in Cooperative than the health system in Chile will collapse “yes or yes before June”, ensuring that no country in the world has been able to avoid the collapse in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In conversation with What is left of the day, indicated that “the health system will collapse yes or yes and before June. No country in the world has been able to avoid it, with the exception of Germany, which has done all the correct epidemiological steps. “
Regarding this, he pointed out that “Today it is occupied over 90 percent of ICU beds in Santiago. Not in Chile, in Santiago“
“That means that long before May 20 all those ICUs are going to be busy and the system is probably going to crash no later than June, because that’s where it starts to get colder and probably the highest number of seriously hospitalized will be between June and July, “said the academic.
And he added: “There won’t be enough critical beds, there won’t be enough health teams to take care of themBecause the mechanical ventilator is important, but the mechanical ventilator is not enough to ensure that things are going to go well (…) you have to have someone to handle it, most doctors do not know how to take care of critical beds. “
In fact, as dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Santiago (Usach), she realized that it takes three years for a specialist to be trained, “it is not something that you will take a course and you will be able to fix by handling respirators, because it is not“
“When thinking about people’s lives, economic analysis loses a little power”
In addition, the former Secretary of State appreciated the Government’s decision to decree total quarantine in Greater Santiago, recognizing that it should not be easy for the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, to make this decision “with the social and economic cost that it has, and with the suffering that can mean for many people. “
“But when we are facing a situation where you have to think about people’s lives, that they don’t die, there economic analysis loses some power and you have to think about people“he emphasized, noting that” the only way to stop the dizzying ascent that the contagion curve was going to take in Chile was to do total quarantines. “
“Today for the first time I felt that the message of Mañalich was clear, it was quite terrifying”
Molina also reflected on the attitude of Chileans towards sanitary measures, arguing that “today Chileans do not believe anyone: they do not believe the Government, they do not believe politicians, neither right nor left nor center, do not They don’t even believe the experts, they don’t have confidence in the elite of the power, both intellectual and economic and political. “
The former Health Minister pointed out that “Chilean people minimize the risk“, especially considering the calls that there were of” new normality “and of” safe return “on the part of the Executive and the partial quarantines.
“People have not become aware,” Molina questioned.
Therefore, he stressed that “Today for the first time I felt that the message from the minister (Mañalich when announcing the total quarantine) was clear, it was quite scary, it was quite real. It is not about scare, if this scares (…) the Chilean needs that, he is not disciplined“
“In the Chilean case, people have lied with the quarantine“he sentenced.
