2023-06-23 20:26:23
Updated Friday, June 23, 2023 – 20:26
The Interterritorial Council approves the flexibility in the use in health centers, pharmacies and residences with 12 acting Health Councilors
People with masks on the street in a file image
The Interterritorial Council of the National Health System held this Friday has finally decided “by consensus” that the obligation to wear a mask in health centers, pharmacies and residences becomes a recommendation. According to Efe, the mask will only be kept in hospital areas with critical and vulnerable (for example in operating rooms, ICUs or when dealing with immunosuppressed patients), which is why its widespread use is ending, but it is recommended especially when there are symptoms of respiratory infection.
The relaxation of this measure coincides in between the two electoral events of the year: the regional elections on May 28, which means that In practice, almost all the summoned Health Ministers are in officeand the general elections next July 23which causes some to criticize that the measure has been raised thinking more about the polls than about the health situation.
The Minister of Health, José Manuel Miones, commented days ago that the debate had to be approached rigorously and seriously and that they were going to be guided by the experts to decide on the withdrawal process; that is, if it is done “prolongedly, definitively or in stages”. It must be taken into account that in previous meetings of the Public Health Commission, the last one held this Thursday, as indicated by the acting Minister of Health of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, no decision had yet been made on the matter.The measure will also have to be approved by the Council of Ministerswho is the one who has the last word on the matter.
There have already been some autonomous regions that hours before had declared themselves in favor in principle, such as Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León, waiting to agree on the details. The counselor of GaliciaJulio García Comesaa, has indicated that they will be in favor of a proposal to eliminate the mandatory use of masks in health centers and pharmacies and only keep them “in areas of immunocompromised patients”.
Almost all of the Health Councilors who have attended the Interterritorial meeting this Friday are in office waiting for the new regional governments to be formeds. Hence the criticism of, for example, the director of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, who has described as “true recklessness” to summon up to twelve acting directors awaiting their relief, something that he considers “totally out of place” and whose only objective is “electoralista”. In his case, already knows the name of the person who will replace him, Fatima Matute, from next Monday.
But in addition to Ruiz Escudero, Sira Ripolls (Arachn), Pablo Fernndez (Asturias), Patricia Gomez (baleares) Blas Trujillo (Canary Islands), Ral Pesquera (cantabria), Jess Fernndez (Castilla la Mancha), Miguel Mnguez (Valencian Community), if Mara Vergeles (Estremadura), Juan Jos Pedreo (Murcia(a), Holy Indurin (Navarra) and Mara Somalo (The Rioja) are also found in functions.
In the case of the councilor from Asturias, it remains to be seen whether he will continue in office, since the PSOE won again in the last elections. The same happens with the owner of Castilla-La Mancha.
At the entrance to the meeting, Ruiz Escudero lamented that the relaxation of masks, although it was a proposal from Madrid for five months “It has not been discussed in the presentation, it has not been discussed in the Public Health Commission, there is no technical criteria for this withdrawal, therefore, If that were approved, it would be another irregularity of the many that we have suffered during all this time in this Interterritorial Council.He, I insist, always instrumentalized for political purposes”, has defended the acting Madrid councillor.
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