Medicines and supplies enter the San Juan de Dios general hospital

He Health Minister Public, Oscar Cordón, referred this Wednesday, March 6, to the situation facing the San Juan de Dios General Hospitalwhere in recent weeks a high level of shortage which, in certain cases, has led to having to ask patients for supplies for their treatment.

According to the official, this healthcare center was received last January with a 36% supply of medicines and 40% of medical and surgical supplies, so since its management began, short, medium and long-term actions have been carried out. to address the issue.

However, he explained that the greatest impact came with the increase in patients arriving injured as a result of having suffered traffic accidents, mostly involving motorcycles.

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Supply for the hospital

The official assured that yesterday, in the afternoon, medicines and supplies began to arrive that were transferred from other hospitals that had sufficient supplies. This methodology was applied while streamlining purchases at the hospital level.

“Urgent actions are aimed at immediate supply and up to six more months,” Cordón highlighted.

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Finally, he shared that the Vice Ministers of Administration and Hospitals, Sandra Aparicio and Linda Valencia, held working groups with authorities and heads of the different administrative and financial departments, including the Purchasing and Contracting Departments of the healthcare center to provide the respective follow-up.

The San Juan de Dios hospital is one of the two largest in Guatemala, along with the Roosevelt hospital, and both serve thousands of people from both the country’s capital and the interior.

* With information from Karla Marroquín, Emisoras Unidas 89.7