Post by jinathjemi22222 on Feb 24, 2024 19:09:04 GMT -10
The controversy over the lack of trackers in the Community of Madrid is intensifying. This Monday, the regional government published the award of a contact tracing contract for nearly 200,000 euros to a private company, Quirón prevention SL. This news, which has been reported again by El Boletín , comes after a week in which a regional report warned that the average number of asymptomatic patients detected with respect to the total number of new cases of COVID-19 was much lower than the national average, as warned Dr. Fernando Simón, director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES) of the Ministry of Health. The report stated that of the cases detected in the last 7 days, only 7.6% of the newly infected were asymptomatic.
The Minister of Health of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, defended that it was a "provisional" report. In the final version the detail of this figure disappears. The Bulletin details that the new contract has been awarded "by emergency means, without publicity" to Quirón prevention SL. The total amount that the company will receive will be 194,223.15 euros, and the duration of the C Level Contact List contract is 3 months. It means, in the end, that it increases by 22 the number of trackers that will be in the Community of Madrid. Contact tracing is an essential activity to prevent new coronavirus outbreaks. Its operation is simple: once a new case of COVID-19 is diagnosed, professional tracers—health personnel or not—do "tracking" work by locating and calling all the "close" contacts that the sick person may have had during the period .
The last two weeks. In this way, health systems are able to prevent new cases of COVID-19 and even detect asymptomatic cases thanks to the order to carry out tests and PCR tests, thus registering a notable increase in asymptomatic cases. According to Dr. Simón, the national average of asymptomatic patients detected with respect to the total number of new COVID-19 infections is now 50%. The regional government recognized problems in hiring trackers In Madrid, however, there are problems hiring trackers. The other day, the Patient Advocate association sent a letter to the Ministers of Health, Salvador Illa, and Labor, Yolanda Díaz, expressing their displeasure over a practice that the Community of Madrid itself was carrying out: the hiring of trackers such as " collaborators" , apparently without any remuneration. In mid-May, the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso committed to the Ministry of Health to hire some 400 trackers.