Dr. Victor Ramos Otero, president of the College of Surgeons of Puerto Rico, said Wednesday in a radio interview that children returning from Disney to Puerto Rico have been infected with Covid-19 and end up hospitalized.
Ramos Otero said in a radio interview with Normand Valentí on Tomorrow for Notiuno 630 that “schools are a bubble. There only go students and staff. Unlike other places where you see children up and down. The mallet ( you don’t know who ‘s on your side in the mall and you see them running up and down the restaurants, from table to table. “
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“And most of all, the thing that terrifies me the most is that they’ve admitted a lot of kids to the hospital who come from Disney” infected with Covid-19, said Ramos Otero, who specializes in pediatrics.
“I recommended a restart of classes since last year. The federal government made a donation to state governments and gave them millions of masks for the Puerto Rican education system that are available to be distributed to all the students, ”explained the president of the College of Surgeons of Puerto Rico.
On the other hand, Ramos Otero assured that the Mental Health Unit of the Pediatric Hospital is full of minors, many of them students of the special education program of the Department of Education.
“The Mental Health Unit has been full since the pandemic began like never before. Girls who need structure, for example autistic children, need to return to face-to-face classes but with all safety measures,” he said. doctor.