The leader of the opposition issued a stinging statement today, blasting the government for mismanaging the COVID outbreak.
He says, quote, "We are faced with a disastrous second wave…our health monitoring system has for all intents and purposes collapsed. We are unable to muster the resources to continue adequate contact tracing - we must now ask persons who feel that they have been infected to call in.
The reality is this. There are six ventilators at the nation's largest referral hospital, the KHMH, and the training of many of our healthcare personnel to operate those ventilators is only now being conducted - now, five months after a first wave. Health facilities have been overwhelmed by persons asking to be tested. The Ministry of Health is scrambling to provide PPEs to front-line health personnel, and there are never enough." End quote.
But, after these sweeping conclusions, Briceno says "this is not the time for time for judgment." He calls on the government to quote, "bolster the human resources of the Ministry of Health" and laments, "Imagine that at this critical stage, we are only testing symptomatic patients, while asymptomatic individuals can walk around and infect others, simply because our systems are overworked almost before the work starts."
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