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With concern, the Iquique Medical College reacted to the entry of several buses with foreign citizens to the Tarapacá region through unauthorized steps. This Saturday, three buses with 160 people of Venezuelan nationality arrived in the area, for whom the Liceo A-7 would have been enabled in order to comply with their quarantine and regularize the required documents. However, the situation put Colmed on alert, whose leaders warned that this could have serious health consequences, considering the Covid-19 pandemic that still affects the country.
“The lack of rigorous control on our border with Bolivia is causing this fact to become a custom and that every time that inhabitants enter illegallyl Our population of Tarapacá runs a health risk, just like the Iquique Hospital and the health care network during the pandemic has been on the verge of collapse, “they said in a statement.
“We believe that the authorities should carry out all the necessary steps so that foreign citizens who enter the country illegally return to their respective countries once the preventive quarantine period of 14 days has expired,” they add.
The uncontrolled arrival of immigrants to the area could cause outbreaks and reduce the option of moving to a phase of disconfinement, so the Colmed called on the authorities to put a “strong hand”. “We make an energetic call to the mayor of the region, Miguel Ángel Quezada, and the head of the National Defense of the region, General Guillermo Paiva, to put a heavy hand on border control. We cannot put our population at risk every time foreign citizens enter Tarapacá illegally “said medical leaders.
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