At the IESS Quito Sur hospital, 39 people with COVID-19 were in the Hospitalization area, while 10 were in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
About ten relatives of Estefanía Quilachamín, 23, are ill. She, sitting inside the respiratory triage tent from the IESS Quito Sur hospital, says they have a bad cold.
In his case, it takes a week with that discomfort. She received the two doses of the vaccine against the coronavirus. While waiting to be treated, she said that in 2020 they fell ill with COVID-19, although she affirms that she did not have any discomfort like those suffered by her relatives, such as fever, loss of smell and taste. He was going to get tested for COVID-19.
The white tents are located to one side of that health home, next to the emergency area.
According Juan Sanchez, medical technical director of the IESS Quito Sur hospital, in the last four weeks they have evidenced a gradual, slight increase, of the flow of patients with respiratory symptoms and positive for coronavirus.
“Is not an increase massive“, said.
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For him Pichincha College of Physicians, For about a month, especially in the Metropolitan District of Quito, there has been a upturn in positive cases of COVID-19.
“That peak was transforming into a slight but steady increase that has been increasing the demand for hospital beds and intensive care in sentinel hospitals and the increase in consultations with mild to moderate symptoms in first-level public and private medical units, “the union said in a statement.
Victor Alvarez, President of the College of Physicians of Pichincha, said that the increase worries them and attributes it to population relaxation before the relaxation of the containment measures, the November holiday where there were more days off, and the start of the Quito festivities.
Last Friday the festivities of the capital of the Republic began, where there was the proclamation in the Plaza de San Francisco, in the center of the city, which convened a large number of people.
For Álvarez, all this carries a risk since, although the vaccination process it’s good, still the variants are communal.
“We have the same weaknesses in the situation of transmissibility, any variant of concern that arises in the world, now or in the future, obviously there is going to be a risk in our territory … ”, said Álvarez, for whom the delta variant of the coronavirus entered Ecuador not by air but by land and by the southern border with Peru. Today there is concern about the variant omicron.
At the IESS Quito Sur hospital there were 39 hospitalized patients with coronavirus, 10 patients in intensive care unit (UCI) and 4 in intermediate care, without patients on waiting lists neither for admission nor for ICU, this Monday.
Of the 39 hospitalized, 30 have mild illness and 9 have moderate illness that require more oxygen therapy. What’s more, 8 people have not been vaccinated and 31 have the scheme with the two doses, while those who are in the ICU, all 10 have complete vaccination.
The previous average in hospitalization was 15 people.
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Sánchez recalled that the hospital had 720 enabled beds for patients with coronavirus and 59 ICU positions, in one of its maximum points of care.
“You have to be alert, you have to keep watch, ”said Sánchez.
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