Senate wanted N95 masks for officials, and doctors claimed

However, the majority of doctors and nurses have not been provided with this type of protection, and that is why even the same congressmen criticized the Senate for wanting to use money to acquire 10,000 N95 masks.

After these questions, the Senate’s Administrative Directorate confirmed, through a statement, that “the purchase order process was canceled and the consultations (National Institute of Health) will be expanded in order to safeguard the integrity of human talent of the entity and the conditions of purchase of these inputs in the medium term ”.

And is that Noticias Caracol announced that the purchase of these items was 180 million pesos, and that the entity argued that the objective was to “comply” with health standards, and that it was done “thinking about the cost benefit ”than a conventional one would last.

“It requires acquiring the personal protection elements tending to prevent and mitigate the risk of contagion of the coronavirus from honorable senators, officials and contractors“Explained the newscast.

That is why the coordinator for COVID-19 of the Hospital of Leticia, Roberto Sandoval, said in the newscast that it seems to him “a lack of respect” with the health personnel, who on many occasions has had to purchase these masks with money of their wages.

“They are ignorant. We need specific protection measures and they – who are in the administrative part – counting on specific protection measures, ”added the doctor.