This weekend, Mayor Francisco Azcué and the Municipal Secretary of Health, Diego Sauré, visited different health centers and, on Saturday night, shared a meeting with the staff of the Municipal Comprehensive Health Emergency Service (SIME) assigned to the 24-hour coverage of the health post located on the Costanera of Concordia.
The meeting was an opportunity to evaluate the progress made in strengthening primary health care and emergency response.
In this regard, Sauré indicated that “comprehensive work is being done to respond to the most urgent needs and, at the same time, to plan for the long term. This allows us to generate responses to emerging demands while we continue to advance in strengthening the health system, mainly in the neighborhoods,” he highlighted.
“This weekend we enabled 24-hour operation for this SIME post on the Costanera. A point that, due to its location and proximity to different neighborhoods in the eastern area, plays a very important role in the emergency network. By the end of September, we will do the same with different health centers at the cardinal points of the city and we are working to reinforce the entire municipal health system,” the doctor announced.
“Our team has the full support of the Mayor and this is what Francisco ratified to us during this tour with the SIME staff, because in this administration there is a clear understanding of the importance of health policies and a deep commitment to the care of the most vulnerable sectors,” remarked Sauré.
PRIORITIZING CARE IN HEALTH CENTERS
“The Mayor especially entrusted us with the care of the Primary Health Care Centers (CAPS). To meet this objective, work was done on administrative reorganization, the formation of new work teams, and the allocation of more resources to maintenance tasks and building improvements,” explained the head of the Health portfolio.
“In these last few weeks, work has been carried out at the Los Pájaros, San Pantaléon, and Norte centers. We are improving the facilities in the 18 municipal centers, bringing medicines, and undertaking the most urgent repairs; so that health professionals and workers are more comfortable and lack nothing, because all this translates into better care for the families who attend these municipal spaces,” he detailed.
24-HOUR CARE
In this context, Sauré emphasized that “the goal is to keep health centers open 24 hours a day.” On this point, the official recalled that “this was a commitment the Mayor made to the community and we are working to fulfill it; we are already extending hours, incorporating new services, and making significant progress in the organization of this new scheme.”
In the same vein, the Secretary of Health announced that “in the coming days, extended care will be enabled at the centers located in Villa Adela and Osvaldo Magnasco, as well as in the Nébel and Los Pájaros neighborhoods; complementing this measure with the adequate availability of ambulances that we are now able to guarantee from the SIME,” he announced.
POSITIVE EXPECTATIONS
“Currently, we are working a lot with municipal staff, prioritizing expenses and taking care of resources, with professionals who are very committed and who understand the great responsibility they exercise from the point of view of caring for the population's health,” highlighted Sauré.
“We are responding to the increased demand for medicines and the care that is increasingly growing in the public sector given the difficult social and economic situation we are going through. We know that these are complicated times but we are working well, with clear objectives, with a strong presence in the territory, listening to the residents, and with a very broad vision of the strategic importance of strengthening primary health care networks to contribute to people's well-being,” he concluded.
The meeting was an opportunity to evaluate the progress made in strengthening primary health care and emergency response.
In this regard, Sauré indicated that “comprehensive work is being done to respond to the most urgent needs and, at the same time, to plan for the long term. This allows us to generate responses to emerging demands while we continue to advance in strengthening the health system, mainly in the neighborhoods,” he highlighted.
“This weekend we enabled 24-hour operation for this SIME post on the Costanera. A point that, due to its location and proximity to different neighborhoods in the eastern area, plays a very important role in the emergency network. By the end of September, we will do the same with different health centers at the cardinal points of the city and we are working to reinforce the entire municipal health system,” the doctor announced.
“Our team has the full support of the Mayor and this is what Francisco ratified to us during this tour with the SIME staff, because in this administration there is a clear understanding of the importance of health policies and a deep commitment to the care of the most vulnerable sectors,” remarked Sauré.
PRIORITIZING CARE IN HEALTH CENTERS
“The Mayor especially entrusted us with the care of the Primary Health Care Centers (CAPS). To meet this objective, work was done on administrative reorganization, the formation of new work teams, and the allocation of more resources to maintenance tasks and building improvements,” explained the head of the Health portfolio.
“In these last few weeks, work has been carried out at the Los Pájaros, San Pantaléon, and Norte centers. We are improving the facilities in the 18 municipal centers, bringing medicines, and undertaking the most urgent repairs; so that health professionals and workers are more comfortable and lack nothing, because all this translates into better care for the families who attend these municipal spaces,” he detailed.
24-HOUR CARE
In this context, Sauré emphasized that “the goal is to keep health centers open 24 hours a day.” On this point, the official recalled that “this was a commitment the Mayor made to the community and we are working to fulfill it; we are already extending hours, incorporating new services, and making significant progress in the organization of this new scheme.”
In the same vein, the Secretary of Health announced that “in the coming days, extended care will be enabled at the centers located in Villa Adela and Osvaldo Magnasco, as well as in the Nébel and Los Pájaros neighborhoods; complementing this measure with the adequate availability of ambulances that we are now able to guarantee from the SIME,” he announced.
POSITIVE EXPECTATIONS
“Currently, we are working a lot with municipal staff, prioritizing expenses and taking care of resources, with professionals who are very committed and who understand the great responsibility they exercise from the point of view of caring for the population's health,” highlighted Sauré.
“We are responding to the increased demand for medicines and the care that is increasingly growing in the public sector given the difficult social and economic situation we are going through. We know that these are complicated times but we are working well, with clear objectives, with a strong presence in the territory, listening to the residents, and with a very broad vision of the strategic importance of strengthening primary health care networks to contribute to people's well-being,” he concluded.