City hospitals on G20 red alert: how is the health system preparing?

The summit of the presidents of the 20 most important countries of the world will take place in Buenos Aires in the coming days and the landscape of the city will be completely changed.

The security operation includes restrictions on traffic, on foot, by land, by air and by sea, as well as a decree on the holidays of Friday, April 30th., in order to minimize as much as possible the entrance of people in the city.

In this context, "the entire system of the Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires is affected by the G20 and will comply with the international protocols applicable in these cases," he confirmed. Infobae the owner of SAME, Alberto Crescenti. As stated, "the emergency medical badistance system will implement the international operational protocols and emergency situations needed in the city".

"The Buenos Aires Health Ministry, in response to the health coverage of the G20 summit and in accordance with the corresponding protocol, indicates that hospitals will be organized to varying degrees of alertness." The statement issued by the Buenos Aires Health Portfolio also stated that "beds will be available both in the rooms and in the closed areas".

In addition, to have the maximum capacity of the health team, it was decided to suspend licenses from 29 November to Sunday 2 December (the doctors who had an badigned replacement, they did not return, the substitute is in place). This is to optimize the performance of the tasks of triage (system for clbadifying patients presenting to an emergency department according to the severity of their condition), care, confinement, treatment and communication.

Starting Wednesday, scheduled surgeries were suspended, although the directive "does not affect normal emergency and / or emergency coverage in the city of Buenos Aires".

In the city of Buenos Aires, hospitals on red alert for the summit are Argerich, Fernandez, Santojanni, Quemados, Santa Lucia, Gutiérrez, Pirovano and Tornú..

The measures are intended to avoid the unexpected in case there is a demonstration against the summit that could lead to injuries, as at the last edition of the meeting of the leaders last year in Hamburg, Germany.

Under the motto "Welcome to hell", anti-capitalist and anti-globalization demonstrators provoked violence that resulted in injured and detained police officers. Burnt cars, shaved shops and burning barricades were the scenes that television channels showed to the world in 2017 and which embarrbaded Germany led by Chancellor Angela Merkel.