Yesterday was a day of multiple inaugurations in the health sector. The most notorious was the beginning of the process of vaccination, but also this Monday the presence of medical consultations in some areas of expertise.
Starting in March, face-to-face consultations are mandatory in general medicine, pediatrics and gynecology, with at least three patients per hour who will be interspersed with others through telemedicine. The authorities hope that the rest of the consultations will be face to face again in the next 120 days.
The executive secretary of the Medical Union, the infectologist Zaida ArtetaHe said yesterday that he believed that the time to resume face-to-face consultations was not the right one. “It’s very important to be able to control and see people in person, but I would have aspired for the presence to be there when vaccination health personnel, “he told Doble Click (Del Sol).
Something similar was said by the chairman of the coordinator of collective healthcare institutions, Carlos Cardoso, who told El País to agree to the resumption of consultations, although he warned that it was necessary to take into account the written submission to the MSP, as the agency “expected the vaccination plan to or in the process, fundamentally the health staff “.
From the Surgical Anesthetic Union (SAQ) celebrate the return of the presence beyond the fact that health personnel are not vaccinated and explain that the “problem with the vaccine” is that it is not known “exactly when” it will be the turn of the health service.
telemedicine
At the beginning pandemic there has been a significant reduction in face-to-face consultations and most institutions have opted for consultations by telephone or video call. In June, an increase of present with a maximum of three consultations per hour.
Already in November, with the arrival of the first wave, the Ministry of Public Health issued a new regulation for the departments with the most cases of COVID-19 with which he was urged to return to telemedicine as his first tool.
return to presence was resolved after Honorary Scientific Advisory Group recommends and warns that “although telemedicine has been a useful tool and remains possible as a complementary way to face-to-face care, its use has many limitations”.
SMU defines your position
Despite the fact that the executive secretary of the Medical Union expressed his personal opinions about the face-to-face consultations, the president of SMU, Gustavo Grecco, preferred not to comment on this issue.
As El País learned, the issue will be discussed tomorrow at the SMU executive committee session.