Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported on Sunday on a collaboration agreement with a couple of private hospital associations, so that for a month the public health service can use 3,300 of its beds, upon entering the most critical stage of COVID-19 cases.
“We’re going to be charged the minimum, there’s going to be no profit, there’s going to be no profit, I appreciate this,” López Obrador said of the agreement, although he didn’t detail what the minimum charge amount will be.
In a video, the president detailed that one of the partnerships with which the agreement was established, so that the public health system is not saturated, is the National Association of Private Hospitals, which includes hospitals such as abc, Los Angeles, Medical Star, South Medical and Dalinde.
With this agreement, the president said, “we can be calmer, safer,” though he insisted that the most important thing to deal well with the COVID-19 emergency is to prevent and address Health recommendations, including not agglomeating and staying at home.
López Obrador mentioned that he hopes to have a projection by federal health specialists next Thursday about when the most critical period of the epidemic will be presented.
The representative mentioned that he would like to initiate the lifting of quarantine or solitary confinement measures on 10 May, gradually, although he is not an expert and will attend to what the specialists tell him.
In difficult times like this, solidarity emerges: private hospitals will help guarantee the right to health of the people.https://t.co/ubWP4QtmPW
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) April 12, 2020
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