Indeed, the O.M.S. An anti-COVID
strategy indicated three concrete steps:
• Social isolation (quarantine)
• Testing for massive COVIDs;
• Monitoring the infected and
their social circle.
In our countries, only the first
recommendation has been met, with serious
deficiencies in the health system for the following two; and even so, in
economies with 70% informal employment, with people who earn a living day by
day, and with serious housing deficiencies, such as Peru, the quarantine was
lifted by itself, with the massive non-compliance of the population desperate.
The objective of buying time to
improve health coverage failed along the whole line: how to overcome a 50-year
health infrastructure gap of US $ 19 billion in 2 months in one country (Peru)?
Horrible images abound resulting from the lack of both mechanical respirators
and oxygen balloons and specialists for the Intensive Care Unitsin collapsed hospitals.
The graphics released by the
Argentine website INFOBAE
are eloquent regarding hospital beds per 10,000 inhabitants and public spending
on health in proportion to GDP, for the entire continent.
Even so, liberal sectors demand
to end the quarantine.
As we have already presented in this blog, a total change of paradigms is required, to establish, as proposed by the Schiller Institute, a worldwide health system, and a program to generate 1.5 billion new jobs, with a global infrastructure program
20/05/20
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