Since no agreement has been reached, the autonomous communities of the PP have stopped this Thursday at Public Health Commission the approval of the plan of measures for the prevention and control of respiratory diseasessuch as covid-19, flu or Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). This plan included a return to masks in the face of the rebound in infections. Health is in favor of its use in all scenarios, although with a gradual expansion of its use as the epidemiological situation worsens. The Public Health Commission has postponed its decision to November.
Health hoped to reach a consensus this Thursday to mitigate the impact of respiratory infections this fall and winter.
The General Directorate of Public Health proposed four scenarios possible risk (0, 1, 2 and 3) based on certain indicators – such as the incidence rate, hospitalizations and ICU admissions and bed occupancy, among others -, in which to apply a series of homogeneous actions in all autonomies , although with the door open for each one to add new ones according to their situation.
In the end there was no agreement. The Secretary General of Health, Javier Padillahas accused the autonomous communities chaired by the PP of preventing the agreement.
Given this situation, The Ministry of Health has summoned the autonomous communities to a new extraordinary meeting to address this issue in next November. “The irresponsibility is enormous and I hope they reconsider,” Padilla said on his personal account on the social network common action plan against the respiratory virus epidemic.
The origin of this document was forged in the previous peak of respiratory infections, in which the Ministry of Health ended up imposing the use of masks in all health centers in the country.
From there, the Coordination Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES) He invited the communities to participate in the development of a joint strategy to avoid another year of system collapse due to the increase in cases.
Invitation to which Asturias, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Galicia, Extremadura, Murcia, País Valencià and La Rioja responded, which since then have been outlining this plan of common actions throughout the four meetings they have had throughout the year. year with the CCAES to do so.
However, after studying it, some of the general directors consider that the plan is not very mature; Others have questioned some of the recommendations, such as giving five days’ leave to infected residential center workers who cannot be relocated to other positions while the infection lasts, and there are some who have criticized the lack of rigor and improvisation.
Sources from the PP have indicated to Europa Press that Health acts from “imprecision, improvisation, lack of rigor and technical criteria”, and they fear in the coming weeks, due to the flu season, there will be a peak in respiratory infections without ” legal support” as there is no document.
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