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This afternoon, the undersecretary of Healthcare Networks, Arturo Zúñiga, visited the Rancagua Regional Hospital to highlight the work of the health workers in that area in the midst of the pandemic.
According to the authority, at a time when the Metropolitan Region was going through the highest rates of contagion that it has experienced, until now, that site received patients from the capital.
“It allowed at the worst moment of contagion in MRI to save the lives of 80 people”, said.
“We have had different levels of infections. We have had very high infections as is happening in the Magallanes Region and as it happened in the Metropolitan Region. Fortunately, in the O’Higgins Region we have had a high level of infections, but not at the level that in the regions that I just mentioned. And that has allowed this hospital to be the one that has received the most patients from Santiago. They have received 80 patients to date. And they are not just any type of patient, they are patients that if they had not had a bed here, they would have died. In other words, the 3,900 health workers at the hospital saved the lives of the 80 MRI patients, ”he said.
However, he said “We are very concerned with the level of contagion that the Rancagua, Graneros and San Fernando communes are having.”
He also asked “citizens to think of the elderly, the chronically ill, but also to think of health officials. They are here working 24 hours, doing more than one shift even a week. We cannot continue abusing them, we have to learn with this cultural change ”.
The Mayor of O’Higgins, Rebeca Cofré, for her part, said that “it has been a work of great commitment from our officials, because the situation has really been complex. It has been difficult to face the pandemic in our region. ”
“It has been a pride for us to have given the benefits and to continue giving them because it was something complicated for all Chileans, especially for some regions. For the officials here it was an arduous task, a great personal sacrifice, because we are all afraid of this disease”, Stated the director of the Rancagua Regional Hospital, Fernando Millard.
“This recognition helps us, because (the staff) is also tired. There are people who did 3 shifts a week, because our staff also got sick, “said Millard, who said that 694 workers at the facility tested positive for coronavirus. One of them passed away.
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