Medical College of Chile accuses: "We’ve been intimidated to not deliver information"
Along the same lines, they asked the Ministry of Health, "which manages healthcare networks, to transparent (the number of wounded) and break with this informative fence"
By The Dynamo October 23, 2019
Izkia Siches, president of the Medical College, denounced pressure to not provide information about her work during social demonstrations throughout the country.
“As an advisory and collaborating entity of the NHRI, we have also been working training our own colleagues who have been, in part, intimidated to not provide information and, many other times, to take legal action against those who go to the assistance centers to attend people” she told to Radio Cooperativa.
Siches told to Radio Cooperativa that “at first we had an informational fence. The hospital directors themselves refused to give information to some entities. ”
"Particularly we have also tried to compile a parallel register, that allows us to objectify how many people have been injured, and there is an important underreporting of many of these injured, as well as a lack of advice to know that many of them can file delations for violation of human rigths", argued the president of the Medical College.
Along the same lines, they asked the Ministry of Health, "which manages the healthcare networks, to transparent (the number of injured) and break with this informative fence."
Meanwhile, when asked about the announcements made by Sebastián Piñera, Izkia Siches assured that an opportunity to make profound advances in the health system was wasted, indicating that “in health we are in debt”.
"We had a lot of consensus on several points, and we expected this situation of social conflict to increase sensitivity, but they are the same proposals as months ago," she said.
The leader said that "the President slammed the door for any structural change in health and we believe that in social movements, one of the demands that have been raised the most, has to do with health."
Although the union leader valued the change of tone in the president's message, she explained the main demands, stating that “today we continue with input problems in the hospital centers and the minister has grossly denied that in the media. On the other hand, we have asked for a substantial increase in the budget for health, to start walking to ensure that 6% of GDP is invested in public spending on health, which is what WHO recommends ”.
Source: ElDínamo
