David Begnaud:
The two men who direct the ship told us that almost 87% of the ship was empty. It seems alarming, right? They have 200 beds and 87% are empty.
Now, here's what they said: we are ready for everything the government wants to do. We are waiting to be informed by the government.
So, I went to see the governor and I said exactly what's going on. And he said, “Listen, I'm not satisfied with what the protocol was from the start.”
He said, initially, they alone favored the most sick patients who comfort themselves. And he said there was a process in diapers that complicated things.
Thus, the governor, Ricardo Rossello, said: “I started to remove some of these diapers, and I said, I listen, take people on the ship which may not be sick, but who need good medical care and cannot get it in the hospital, where the lights turn away and the AC does not work.”
This is what the governor said.
In a few hours, I obtained a tweet from a third year of medical student who said: “Let me tell you what nightmare, it was to reach comfort.”
He said: “We have a pediatric patient who desperately needed to get off this island, either in a hospital on the continent or comfort.”
And he said, “I went through Google and the local newspaper to find the number. I didn't find it.”
Now here's how things work. In about 30 minutes after the release of this tweet and that the history of the medical student is published, the governor's spokesman responded with figures that should be able to help.
The main thing here, William, is that asking incessant questions and the good job of journalism is what makes a difference there. He is not a single person. There is no heroic work that is accomplished by a journalist, apart from the people who return to the same officials and ask some of the same questions, relentlessly looking for the right answer that will make a difference.
