translated from Spanish: INER evictes waiting room for PATIENT suspected COVID-19

By noon on Friday, about 15 people waiting to be tested to see if they have COVID-19 were evicted from the emergency room of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) for the case of a possible one affected by this new coronavirus.
Martha, who requested anonymity, told Animal Politico that her father, a 40-year-old man with no history of traveling abroad but with a recent work outing to Oaxaca, had come to INER a day earlier with a high fever, a lot of cough and pain in his body, but who had not wanted to stay in the hospital and let him go home.
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“My dad doesn’t like to be locked up. He didn’t want to stay. He was discharged voluntarily, under our responsibility, but today he felt bad again and we brought him back.”
The young woman, however, claimed that her father does not have COVID-19. “He has pneumonia, he’s already confirmed, he’s been tested, and he’s not COVID-19, but he’s a type of pneumonia.”
AP: Do you know what kind of pneumonia he has?
M: No, but it’s not COVID, he insisted.
AP: Why did they vacate the room then?
M: I don’t know
While inside the emergency room the movement of staff was observed sanitizing the area, outside the 15 evicted people endured the symptoms that brought them to this hospital designated as one of the main ones to care for people with COVID.
Margarita coughs and covers he himself with his forearm even though he wears a head cover, says he has no travel history but lived with a suspicious case. He’s got a fever and a sweat-covered face.
“Now I’m more worried, I was there in the waiting room, sitting behind the gentleman they put in the office and then they took us all out, in case I already had suspicion of being infected, now I’m more scared.”
The young woman hesitates between waiting here for them to finish sanitizing the room and allowing them to enter for medical checkup or to go to another hospital designated to take the test, such as the Nutrition.
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In conversion
There, in Nutrition, those arriving find the doors closed to the main access and flanked by two policemen with head coverings. Those who arrive at the consultation are informed that they should reschedule their appointment, for now the priority (as indicated by the conversion plans of these hospitals) is to pay attention to those who arrive by applying for the COVID-19 test.
Five people with an appointment are told this and withdraw, one is told that if he thinks it is necessary he can go to another hospital for care, to Gea González Hospital. Then up a young man for whom the doors do open. “I’m here for a COVID test,” he tells the cops at the entrance, mutters two other inaudible phrases and let it go.
Inside it takes a few minutes to give data in front of a desk where there is a nurse holed up in cover of slides and googles. You are then prompted to move to another area and the sanitization begins.
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Original source in Spanish