According to the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), more than 100,000 people came to the vaccination weekend to receive the doses against the coronavirus.
In three hospitals in Quito, the occupation in intensive care unit (UCI) to treat coronavirus ranged from 80% and 100%.
According to the last report about him coronavirus in the capital, in week 46 of the pandemic, dated to November 23 and presented by the Health Secretary of the Municipality of Quito, with data as of November 22, in the IESS Quito Sur hospital the occupancy for ICU was 100%; at the hospital Carlos Andrade Marin (IESS), 86%; and in the hospital Pablo Arturo Suarez, from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), 81%.
The Ministry of Health collects information from eleven hospitals about the development of COVID-19: from the MSP, IESS, National Police, Armed Forces.
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On hospital beds, in the Eugenio Espejo hospital there was 25% occupancy; in the one of the Policeman, 100%; at IESS Quito South, 75%; and at Pablo Arturo Suárez, 40%.
According to the municipal entity, with data to November 22, on FIA there was the 65 % occupancy without people waiting for a bed and the 66 % on hospitalization no patients waiting for a bed.
At the IESS San Francisco, Enrique Garcés, Armed Forces, Baca Ortiz Pediatric Hospital, Luz Elena Arismendi Obstetrician Gynecologist, Calderón Teacher, there were no patients neither in hospitalization nor in ICU.
With respect to confirmed cases, after six weeks of increase, in the last week in Quito a decrease was observed. It went from 115 cases to 376 and last week they reached 146, according to the report of the Capital Municipality with data as of November 21.
But there is restlessness on the increase in hospital admissions.
Carlos Oporto, COVID data analyst, indicated that patients in hospitalization and ICU patients continue to increase, so he made a call to go to the vaccination centers.
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“In the public sector there are 102 free beds of those assigned. This may increase, but a very high investment would have to be made again. And if it is exceeded, other emergencies and programmed operations begin to be neglected, “said Oporto in relation to ICU patients, on his Twitter account.
While the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, stated that the vaccination campaign has been relaunched to cover a larger population, especially families, and indicated that over the weekend, at the vaccination mingas, more than 100,000 people.
“The goal is for children ages 5 and up to receive their first vaccines, that adolescents between 12 and 17 (years) already begin to receive their second dose And, well, people from the age of 18 who for some reason have not received their first or second dose do so, we are also placing the booster dose for people 65 years and older …”, Garzón said in a radio interview.
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