The remote medicine strategy, implemented by the Government of Baja California Sur to deal with the contingency caused by Covid-19, “continues to be an important tool for detecting and promptly monitoring patients channeled into home isolation, with the perspective to verify that they evolve in a positive way or proceed to hospital admission in the event that they present complications, "said Governor Carlos Mendoza Davis after making a call to the South Californians to use this tool that will allow timely care and better taking advantage of the infrastructure available in the state.

During the working session of the State Committee on Health Safety, in which the Secretary of Health, Víctor George Flores, and the representatives of Social Security and ISSSTE, as well as the Armed Forces and the municipalities of Los Cabos, were present, La Paz and Loreto, the importance of keeping distancing measures in force and in case of suspicion, using the telephone service with the number 800BCSCOVID (80022726843), as well as in the digital self-diagnosis application that is available on the page, was highlighted. web coronavirus.bcs.gob.mx, through which 22,416 services have been provided.

Mendoza Davis recalled that this scheme allows remote care to be given to people who are suspected of having the disease, thus avoiding saturation of hospital units and guaranteeing the provision of services to patients with severe clinical conditions.

Through these two platforms, the concerns of people with respiratory symptoms are received. They are screened by questionnaire to define if they comply with the signs associated with this infection (such as dry cough, fever and difficulty breathing) and, if so, they are channeled to qualified doctors who provide telephone or video call consultations.

This telemedicine strategy allows reducing the influx of people to hospitals, thus preventing people from being exposed to the spread of the disease and reinforcing the availability of hospital beds for patients positive for Covid-19 who present severe conditions, pointed out the health Secretary.

It was also announced that the evaluation of non-essential activities that have been reactivated is continuing and that it will be in the next few days when it is determined whether a further step will be taken or, if the situation warrants, return to the suspension of operations.