Hospitals and clinics in the Basque Country: cloth masks no, thank you

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The debate over

persists.

The Basque Health Service, Osakidetzca, has decided to ban cloth masks in hospitals and health centers in the provinces of Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya.

This has been advanced by

and

.

The measure responds to the need to control the spread of the virus in the healthcare environment, since

or are presented in the best hygienic conditions.

For this reason, this new regulation that is beginning to spread throughout the Basque Country requires that the hospital or outpatient clinic equip the patient to wear this cloth accessory with another surgical type.

Thus, the autonomous community wants to increase security at a worrying moment in the evolution of the pandemic.

The region today announced

, of which almost half are concentrated in Vizcaya, which registers 138.

The question now is whether the rest of the Autonomous Communities will follow the example of the Basque Country and begin to ban cloth masks in health facilities in an attempt to limit the spread of the second wave of the virus.

"It does not seem like a bad idea to me. There are masks that can be washed, but that is not done; and then there are those of limited use in time that not everyone respects.

", says José Luis Quintana, a family doctor, who argues that this new measure should be evaluated by public health experts.

For his part, Joan Ramón Villalbi, member of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration (Sespas), states that the standard is already being adopted in other centers and hospitals outside the Basque Country, such as Barcelona.

The expert declares that "the cloth masks that have been generalized for citizen use during the pandemic

."

The General Council of Official Associations of Physicians (CGCOM) already warned in a statement last May of the suitability of the use of surgical masks for patients who came to health centers and services.

In addition, the institution not only recommended the use of surgical procedures for these environments,

, companies, social health residences and closed premises where the safety distance cannot be maintained."

Paulino Cubero, a primary care physician, warns, however, that "surgical masks

."

He emphasizes that, on the other hand, the advantage is that, if they give them when entering hospitals and health centers, health workers make sure that the cloth ones do not circulate dirty or contaminated.

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