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The Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid has planned a third distribution of free masks with the stock that has been left over from the first deliveries made in two months. In total, around four million units have not been collected from pharmacies , almost 30% of the 14 million of those acquired by the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso for distribution among the population as a result of the de-escalation of the confinement decreed by the Covid-19.

The consignment of FPP2 model masks pending dispatch will be directed this time exclusively to those over 65 , that is, 1,181,000 residents according to the INE of 2019, who can take two of them home from the week that comes. The rest will be delivered later to health professionals and in nursing homes, according to a spokesperson for the area that Enrique Ruiz Escudero directs.

The more than 1.4 million units left over from the first distribution, carried out between May 11 and 25, were deposited in the warehouses of the drug distributor Cofares, in Móstoles and Alcobendas. This company will be responsible for moving the stored material back to the almost 3,000 pharmacies in Madrid , in addition to the other 2.5 million that have not been released in the second phase, between June 3 and July 2.

The masks can be removed from the next week presenting the health card , since they are included within the electronic prescription. In the case of people who do not have it, mainly mutual members, they can acquire them by presenting their ID or NIE as before.

The distribution has been organized through an agreement signed between the Madrid Health Service and the Official College of Pharmacists of Madrid signed on May 9 so that it could be done "in an orderly manner." This agreement details that "it does not entail financial commitments between the parties."

The objective of this measure is "to prevent the spread of the virus and its spread." Since the beginning of the health emergency in the region, 75,319 positive cases have been recorded through PCR tests, 18 of them in the last 24 hours, and more than 15,000 people have died .

After the shortage of personal protective equipment registered at the start of the pandemic, in which images of toilets covered with garbage bags came to be seen, and the regional government blamed the centralized purchasing system of the Ministry of Health - where it They deny-, Ayuso's team has brought 22 planes from China where 53 million units of supplies have been transported , including masks, nitrile gloves, medical gowns, leggings, glasses, hospital beds and ICU monitors.

Infrastructure plan

The management of the material by the Madrid government has been one of the criticisms that opposition parties have repeatedly expressed during the management of the pandemic, although this Tuesday the focus was on the health infrastructure plan .

The representatives of PSOE, Más Madrid, Vox and Unidas Podemos -José Manuel Freire, Mónica García, Ana Cuartero and Vanessa Lillo, respectively- asked the Vallecas Assembly to review it to adjust it to the current situation and to rethink issues such as the need to build a pandemic hospital in Valdebebas in the face of the possibility of a re-emergence of Covid-19 infections in the autumn, whose works have already started, when that of the Sierra Norte included in the government agreement between PP and Cs it is still only a commitment.

The director general of this area, Alejo Miranda, defended in parliamentary headquarters that the planned actions do not have "a political color" or a "specific ideology", but in most cases respond to the "needs expressed by the professionals themselves ». He also acknowledged that the different "eventualities", such as the coronavirus crisis, have delayed the deadlines of various planned projects , such as the conversion of the old Puerta de Hierro into a half-stay center.

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