During this Tuesday morning, Mayor Francisco Azcué visited the Villa Adela Health Center, which has been providing 24-hour care for a month and has a brand-new ambulance acquired by the Municipality of Concordia. “We manage well to allocate resources and invest in what is important: having a present State,” he highlighted.
This is a public policy promoted by the current administration, fulfilling the commitment made to the citizenry from the moment of presenting its government platform, with the objective of helping to relieve the demand for care in the city's hospitals.
The Villa Adela center joins the Health Centers in the Nebel and Los Pájaros neighborhoods, which have been working with this modality since last year.
RESPONSE TO THE COMMUNITY
In the first place, Azcué valued that in these first weeks, in Villa Adela, more than 400 consultations have already been attended to, “which shows that it was precisely necessary to make this decision,” adding that the ambulance providing service was acquired with resources from the Municipality of Concordia within the framework of the investment for the improvement and expansion of the vehicle fleet.
This is because “we manage well to allocate resources and invest in what is important: having a present State. These are actions that the community values and that demonstrate that our personnel responds.”
“Just as we believe that the State must accompany the private sector, that we must deregulate, that we must lower the tax burden, that we must withdraw the State from places where it does not need to be, we also believe that there are places where it does need to be and where we must invest,” he remarked.
Finally, Azcué indicated that what was proposed in terms of public health policies is partly what is being achieved with the CAPS that are strategically located in the city, thus allowing for responses to demands that help to relieve the care in the health system that comprises the hospitals.
In the case of Villa Adela, “this was a request from the residents for many years,” anticipating that a new center with the same modality will soon open in the northern area of Concordia.
AVERAGE
For his part, the Secretary of Health, Dr. Diego Sauré, after recalling that there are three CAPS operating with this modality, stressed that currently “an average of between 400 and 500 patients are being attended to monthly in each of them.”
“Today, in total, we have already reached 4,500 patients, with a transfer rate of more or less 6 or 7%. That shows you that the vast majority of those patients are resolved here and not saturating the emergency rooms of the Felipe Heras and Masvernat hospitals,” adding that every day, these centers have “a nurse, the Urban Guard or police custody, plus an ambulance.”
Sauré also reported that since last week, the base of the SIMES (Municipal Comprehensive Health Emergency Service) began operating in the Osvaldo Magnasco area.
PRIMARY CARE
Finally, the person in charge of the Villa Adela Health Center, Luisa Cabrera, stressed that this type of care has had a positive impact on the location since it is a sector that is far from the hospitals, “and the team that is working 24 hours a day is trained to provide primary care, and cases that require other assistance are transferred by ambulance.”
Vice Mayor Magdalena Reta de Urquiza, Undersecretary of Social Development Roberto Niez, Undersecretary of Health Germán Margaritini, and council members Eliana Lagraña and Mauricio Rey were present.
This is a public policy promoted by the current administration, fulfilling the commitment made to the citizenry from the moment of presenting its government platform, with the objective of helping to relieve the demand for care in the city's hospitals.
The Villa Adela center joins the Health Centers in the Nebel and Los Pájaros neighborhoods, which have been working with this modality since last year.
RESPONSE TO THE COMMUNITY
In the first place, Azcué valued that in these first weeks, in Villa Adela, more than 400 consultations have already been attended to, “which shows that it was precisely necessary to make this decision,” adding that the ambulance providing service was acquired with resources from the Municipality of Concordia within the framework of the investment for the improvement and expansion of the vehicle fleet.
This is because “we manage well to allocate resources and invest in what is important: having a present State. These are actions that the community values and that demonstrate that our personnel responds.”
“Just as we believe that the State must accompany the private sector, that we must deregulate, that we must lower the tax burden, that we must withdraw the State from places where it does not need to be, we also believe that there are places where it does need to be and where we must invest,” he remarked.
Finally, Azcué indicated that what was proposed in terms of public health policies is partly what is being achieved with the CAPS that are strategically located in the city, thus allowing for responses to demands that help to relieve the care in the health system that comprises the hospitals.
In the case of Villa Adela, “this was a request from the residents for many years,” anticipating that a new center with the same modality will soon open in the northern area of Concordia.
AVERAGE
For his part, the Secretary of Health, Dr. Diego Sauré, after recalling that there are three CAPS operating with this modality, stressed that currently “an average of between 400 and 500 patients are being attended to monthly in each of them.”
“Today, in total, we have already reached 4,500 patients, with a transfer rate of more or less 6 or 7%. That shows you that the vast majority of those patients are resolved here and not saturating the emergency rooms of the Felipe Heras and Masvernat hospitals,” adding that every day, these centers have “a nurse, the Urban Guard or police custody, plus an ambulance.”
Sauré also reported that since last week, the base of the SIMES (Municipal Comprehensive Health Emergency Service) began operating in the Osvaldo Magnasco area.
PRIMARY CARE
Finally, the person in charge of the Villa Adela Health Center, Luisa Cabrera, stressed that this type of care has had a positive impact on the location since it is a sector that is far from the hospitals, “and the team that is working 24 hours a day is trained to provide primary care, and cases that require other assistance are transferred by ambulance.”
Vice Mayor Magdalena Reta de Urquiza, Undersecretary of Social Development Roberto Niez, Undersecretary of Health Germán Margaritini, and council members Eliana Lagraña and Mauricio Rey were present.