Five days after it became public that the Galician nursing assistant Teresa Romero was infected by Ebola, Mariano Rajoy management decided to strengthen placing Vice President, Soraya Sáenz Santamaria, commanding operations, which is relegated to the Minister Ana Mato. The chain of errors, mistakes and negligence that has occurred in the case and the subsequent chaotic management that have caused outrage among health professionals and confusion in public opinion reacted to the government, which has had to modify and create protocols a special committee to centralize and coordinate the work. While Rajoy himself, who visited the Carlos III Hospital without Minister, launched a message of calm and emphasized that the risk of disease spreading in Spain is “very low.”
Saenz de Santamaria chair this committee on Ebola, yesterday afternoon held its first meeting. In addition to the number two executive compose the Minister of Health, six ministries, including Defense and Interior, representatives of the Madrid and counseling experts. It shall meet at least once a day and your task will be to coordinate inputs, promote cooperation between governments and international authorities and provide information. The spokesman also said that whether to take political responsibility will, but would not discuss possible mistakes, because “we are talking about human lives” and now comes to managing the crisis and try to save the patient.
The Minister appears
After the barrage of criticism he received for his role in the press conference Monday, Mato appeared yesterday after the meeting of the Inter-Territorial Council in the presence of the regional directors to stage closing ranks against the crisis. He announced major developments in the protocol, among which raise the threshold for considering a low fever case suspicion among persons who have direct contact with Ebola patients from 38.6 to 37.7 degrees. Experts believe have demanded such a high temperature is a cause that Romero was not treated before. The other major change is to increase the level of risk for those who have had contact with the patient, which will then be considered high risk, and therefore subject to active surveillance. That is, they will not be the ones who have to call to report if they have a fever or are ill, they will be asked. Such measures have already been launched in Madrid, and now will be extended to all communities.
Mato considered a success the creation of the special committee, it has not made any mistake in the management noting that both Madrid and his ministry have acted with ‘maximum liability, high transparency, high maximum coordination and collaboration. ” He noted that it is considering “stepping” and “one to one” all that has happened, procedures, protocols and actions to find possible failures that have caused the infection.
Asked about the status of Romero, said he can say “it is what we know from the media.” “We have no more information than that and looks set to evolve,” he said. In that regard, he noted that she is not who should be given this information and said to have been the ill own and their families who have asked not to be given, and in any case, would the doctors who do it.
Document Set
The ministry and the communities signed a joint document called the peace and responsibility, undertake to work within a framework of unity and further investigation of what happened to identify what can be improved.
The Socialist Party believes that the creation of the special committee reaches late and insufficient. Before their leader Pedro Sanchez denounced the “shamelessness, lack of coordination, lack of control, helplessness and ultimately misrule” of governance. PSM leader, Thomas Gomez, demanded the dismissal of director Javier Rodriguez, who was disavowed by President Ignacio Gonzalez and received criticism in the ranks of PP.
No comments:
Post a Comment