As the decision of the Government approaches (everything indicates that it will take place this Tuesday) on the extension of the covid passport requirement in Catalonia, more voices arise defending the need for this certificate to contain the sixth wave. This Sunday the director of the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), Gemma Craywinckel, who has been in favor of requesting the covid passport to enter closed spaces, such as restaurants, weddings, parties and even in theaters or cinemas, in short, in interior places where many people accumulate.
Speaking to TV-3, Craywinckel has argued that measures such as the mask use, social distancing, or hand washing, when we enter a period in which most activities are carried out indoors, due to the cold. Faced with this situation and the “extremely high contagiousness” of covid-19, has been in favor of the covid passport, which, she recalled, is not only to prove that its carrier is vaccinated, but also It also has a negative result with a PCR or antigen test.
Nurse search
The head of CatSalut has defended a “strategy of recruitment of nursing health professionals from other autonomous communities“and has opted to offer them in Catalonia” good conditions for them to come here. “
In addition, he has ensured that the Generalitat will maintain the covid contracts, and they have budgeted for it, because otherwise “the system will suffer”, which is why it has been chosen to “make an extraordinary effort with the usual funds” and for that reason they demand from the Government the maintenance of the covid funds that the Government want to delete.
The threat of the flu
Craywinckel has affirmed that they cannot afford not to worry about the possibility that there will be a new wave of covid in Catalonia, especially given the arrival of the cold and the gripe.
“We are in an environment – he explained – in which when we try to withdraw from the covid and return to the strategy of habitual care of the population we have little rest”, and recalled that this year the flu returns, “there will be more than last year” and “there will be work.”
Given this situation and to avoid the collapse of primary care, CatSalut proposes organizational strategies such as defining “very well” the circuits of visits, maintaining those that are made online, “because not everything is fixed by saying ‘double shifts that you will collect ‘”, he assured.
Recover the massive tests
In addition, they propose recover the points to do antigen tests and PCR in a “massive” way, with the aim of taking pressure off primary care, recovering their normal activity and attention to other illnesses and not having to deprogram other activities.
In this sense, it has expressed its concern, not so much about the figures of the waiting lists, as well as the health status of the patients and has ensured that most of the interventions are carried out within the established guarantee time.
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The director of CatSalut recalled that the emergency decree that obliges the private sector to work for the public when necessary is still in force, although the will of the Generalitat is to end this situation by the end of January.
Gemma Craywinckel has insisted on the need to be vaccinated and has stressed that when reaching percentages of more than 80% or 90% “a small percentage greatly increases protection, it changes as from night to day”, so it has encouraged new to the population to be vaccinated, especially to the age group between 30 and 50 years.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com