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This Monday, Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, He appeared before the investigating commission of the Government’s actions in relation to the impacts of Covid-19 in the country.
During the execution of the instance in the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies, the president of the commission, Deputy Jaime Mulet (FREVS) He consulted the head of the Minsal about a report that indicated that the virus has had a lethality four times higher in Cerro Navia than in Vitacura, approach that has been noticed in recent months.
Given this, Paris stated that “The truth is that the more poverty there is, the more possibility of contagion, but no more possibility of fatality, or there is no relationship between fatality or poverty, because that would mean that patients are treated in a discriminatory way by their place of origin”.
“Since we installed the integrated Health network, that has not happened. Patients move from one place to another, from a public hospital to a clinic, from one region to another ”, added the Secretary of State.
Along the same lines, he stressed that “there is a greater amount of contagion in the most humble communes or those with less socioeconomic development (…) Why? Due to the policies that the last governments have followed, in relation to the fact that apartments of 50mt2 or houses of 70mt2 are built and 8 people live, or they live in cités, or they live in multi-divided houses. In other words, this is a problem of the State of Chile, and one of the lessons that we also have to draw from this pandemic, and it is also an ecological concept, in relation to how we have violated the dignity of people by making them live in inadequate housing “.
Regarding the higher risk of contagion in areas with lower economic income, Paris added that “this is – I will not say fault – but It is a responsibility of the State of Chile. Why are there more parks in one place and fewer parks in others? Why are there houses of 400mt2 in one place and in others of 60mt2 and without a patio? So obviously, in a small house with a single bathroom, with a small bedroom, sometimes with one and a half, the contagion capacity is much higher.
“That was what caused the virus explosion in Santiago. When the virus began in the upper area of Santiago, the contagion rate was very low, when it reached the western area, obviously that enormous amount of contagion that we could see occurred, but This is not the fault of the government in power – it could have been another government’s turn – this is a problem for the State of Chile, and we have to reflect very well on what the standards are going to be to build houses or buildings where people do not live in crowds. ”, sentenced.
Finally, he reaffirmed that “there has not been, in Chile at least, a difference due to socioeconomic reality in mortality rate, yes in contagion rate, that must be recognized.”
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