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Private clinics launched a call for attention to the financial vulnerability they are in because they fulfilled the requested commitments by the Government to expand the capacity of beds to serve the covid-19, but they have not received the promised reliefs.
The request for help is made by the clinics, spreading red rags in front of their facilities, emulating those located by vulnerable families in their homes, in different regions of the country, asking for markets or aid.
The manager of the Meta Clinic, Jorge Luis Cruz, explained that, after the declaration of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health established guidelines which they accepted without hesitation, after a meeting they held with the Governor of Meta, Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, and the Secretary of Health, Jorge Ovidio Cruz.
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They were asked to expand the expansion areas for covid-19 service provision by suspending scheduled surgery services, outpatient and non-vital consultation in order not to generate large groups of people in a waiting room or clinic area.
This measure also contributed to avoiding the spread of users and medical personnel of the institutions. The guideline, in turn, called for the supply of hospital beds and intensive care to be generated for the need, anticipating the peak of the pandemic.
That task, says Cruz, was accomplished by the Association of Orinoquia Institutions, created in 2004, to which all the highly complex private and public clinics such as the Villavicencio, Puerto Gaitán, Puerto López and Acacías hospitals belong.
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But the decrease in the services in the clinics caused the billing to decrease by an average of 40 percent, in each institution, and to increase costs by 20 percent because they had to make purchases of equipment, bioprotection elements and hiring personnel.
However, the commitments of the national government have not been fulfilled, among others, says Cruz, to “put pressure on the insurance sector to pay us the portfolio, to generate soft loans with grace periods by the financial sector, the credit from both sides of Bancóldex as a bank on the second floor, as well as the reliefs in credits and public services, and that social security was going to cross with the portfolio ”.
The region, before the pandemic, had 850 to 900 hospital beds and 74 beds from the Intensive Care Unit.
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Some of those measures have been timidly taken, such as paying pensions and paying 40 percent of a minimum wage as payroll relief, for each worker, for three months, he added.
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As billing impacted and costs increased, the financial structure of institutions collapsed., maintains the manager of the Meta Clinic. In addition to this, the payment of the 125,000 million pesos portfolio that the system owes to private clinics was not generated either.
Before the pandemic, the region had 850 to 900 hospital beds and 74 beds from the Intensive Care Unit, with an occupancy rate of 90 percent with the usual pathologies for the two services.
It was estimated that a thousand infections would require 200 hospital beds and more than 50 ICU beds. There is now near An additional 100 hospital beds and 20 ICU beds, but respirators and equipment are still lacking to be well prepared, Cruz says.
In Meta, as of this Wednesday, there are 935 reported cases of covid-19, 865 of which are from jail, six people have been in the ICU and eight have died, and fortunately, there has been no massive critical patient situation, he maintains. the manager of the Meta Clinic.
Cruz vehemently ends by pointing out that the clinics are not asking for money., but that they fulfill their commitments, in order to continue providing services, paying wages to workers and avoiding layoffs, which they would be faced with in the coming days if the government does not fulfill their commitments.
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