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The health of the Community of Aragon have started the weekend with a video of the Minister of Health of this community, Pilar Ventura, telling them that "they began to manufacture or adapt material [protection: EPIs] and" were allowed " To do so, because it was a "stimulus" to feel that they collaborated with a system that had difficulties.

Ventura's video is of his intervention in the Health Commission, in the Cortes de Aragón, which was held last Friday, May 8. The owner made these statements in response to a question from the popular deputy Ana Marín about complaints about the protective material used in the Ernest Lluch hospital in Calatayud.

Ventura's statements have outraged health professionals who have run the graphic document like wildfire through social networks, gathering support inside and outside this autonomy from health workers outraged with the words of the counselor.

Such has been the impact of these statements, that the Autonomous Council of Official Medical Colleges of Aragon, in an emergency meeting held by videoconference of the three presidents of the autonomous medical colleges this Saturday, have sent a letter to Javier Lambán, President of the General Deputation of Aragon, requesting "the immediate dismissal of his post from the Minister of Health, Pilar Ventura."

In their letter, the presidents of the schools of Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel assure that the counselor's words, "beyond being unfortunate or a simple misunderstanding, are inadmissible and suppose a total lack of respect for professionals who have had to carry out their work without adequate protection due to the lack of foresight and the subsequent mismanagement of the Ministry, which led to the contagion of hundreds of health workers and even the death of two of them. "

They are, according to the representatives of the doctors, "a few words that suppose the drop that fills a glass, full of incapacity for management and a permanent sign of lack of empathy and decorum." So, they assure: " The apologies of the counselor Pilar Ventura will not be enough ." And they insist that "this exercise in cynicism is only the latest sign of the inability to manage the crisis with improvised measures, with a lack of protection and evidence, and that they are putting the lives of all professionals at risk" .

The CESM Aragón medical union has joined this resignation request, with a letter to Lambán in similar terms. In two pages, the union calls for "the immediate cessation" of the Minister of Health , "because it has shown that it is not up to the necessary level to carry out these functions and defend the work carried out by the health workers of Aragon."

In addition, they remind Ventura that, if the professionals had to start making their own EPis, it was not because they "felt useful", but because they had no material to protect themselves when caring for patients. "We are the first country in the world in infected toilets," they point out.

With their words, they assure that the member of the regional executive shows " a lack of respect towards the toilets, a lack of sensitivity , a frivolity in their comments and especially frank irresponsibility." In addition, they claim to study all possible actions to ask for responsibilities.

Ventura's apologies came the same Saturday morning. Whether or not they will serve to appease the fire created among the health professionals of Aragon, remains to be seen.

Urgently, the General Deputation of this autonomy, through a statement, explain that the counselor's statements took place in a debate within parliament. "Both the counselor herself and different health managers have reiterated on numerous occasions their thanks to the health workers for the work done in this crisis, as well as their apologies for the lack of protective equipment at certain times of this health crisis," said the statement. official.

A gray way to start the weekend, when the Community of Aragon had reasons to celebrate. All its provinces will go to Phase 1 of de-escalation on Monday.

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