“Designing health care without an environmental perspective is no longer under discussion,” said Manzur this afternoon and found that metropolitan areas “are a reality and will go grow.”
He said that”s why he poses “a major challenge, with many difficulties but also opportunities, like being able to quickly reach a large conglomeration of people with vaccines or supplies, or prevent disease.”
He said that the shortcomings of drinking water, sewage, lack of green space or health centers “, we are facing new challenges and approaches we have to rethink.”
Build consensus about what is going to do is key, because the sustainability of a proposal also stems from the consensus. There can be no conflicting guidelines among the areas of health and environment, “he said.
Meanwhile, the ambassador to Chile, Gines Gonzalez Garcia, said” the link between health and poverty is already installed, but the environment and health has most recently installed, and the interaction on this subject is indispensable. “
He added that” poverty is the main pollutant that have metropolitan areas, because poverty becomes a destination of life. Therefore, combating poverty and social exclusion is central.
Manzur coincided with Gonzalez Garcia in the role and the need for “the state”s presence” in the functioning of the metropolis, therefore, the minister stressed the need for jurisdictions to make “a minimum of planning and medium term.”
In turn, the mayor of Berazategui, Juan Jose Mussi, highlighted the concept of “urban transition” and cited the joint work in seven municipalities in Buenos Aires and asked for the implementation of Decree 137 of 2005 provides for the creation of the metropolitan area with the capital and suburbs.
“It ends with this theme that the province will attend a health hospitals because, for example, the province will also pay the police used in the capital or consume services there,” said the village headman.
Manzur finally said that “safeguarding the quality of life in large metropolitan areas and is a” real public health problem that constitutes a challenge for the much heralded XXI century “. (Telam) .- assc-cvr-jab22/04/2010 19:18