At the IESS Quito Sur hospital, for its managers, it was an exceptional day this Monday, as they attended 225 patients with respiratory symptoms.
The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) has implemented a contingency plan In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections from complicating hospital care in Quito, in government health homes.
Jorge Peñaherrera, manager of the Pablo Arturo Suárez Hospital of the MSP, he mentioned that at the moment they are 32 beds enabled in UCI COVID Y 30 for hospitalization.
Of the 32 beds in ICU are occupied 16 (50%), while of the 30 hospital beds, 24 were busy (80%).
Peñaherrera commented that last week there was 21 ICU beds.
“We had to increase the number of ICU beds because we are seeing that there is an increase that other hospitals send us (…), every day it is very variable, the cases are increasing, decreasing, “said the doctor.
For Peñaherrera, the consequences of the Quito festivities are being seen. That hospital can be expanded up to 46 ICU beds and in hospitalization up to 50 beds.
To reach that top COVID areas open in other health houses. “We will be closing more services in order to open more ICU or hospital beds,” he added.
The average age of those who are admitted he is 50 years old and most of them are not vaccinated.
Peñaherrera explained that mild symptoms It is attended in health centers and then they are sent to their homes as those who need permanent oxygen or being intubated, that is, with moderate to severe symptoms, they are admitted to health homes.
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Janeth zonal surveillance manager of the public health of Zone 9, which corresponds to the Metropolitan District of Quito of the MSP, indicated that the Pablo Arturo Suárez hospital is a priority care for these cases.
That health house it is located in the north of the city.
According to the official, if 80% is exceeded both hospitalization and intensive care unit (ICU), the Enrique Garcés general hospital, which is located in the south of Quito, and if it exceeds 80%, the Calderón General Teaching Hospital, in the extreme north of the city.
If it is exceeded 80%, the entire hospital network would be activated.
“Everything depends so much on co-responsibility (…). The Ministry of Public Health is prepared with vaccination, with vaccination centers, But it also has another strategy, which is the comprehensive surveillance of COVID-19, both at the hospital and community level, with screening points in health centers, ”said Yar.
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At IESS Quito Sur hospital, according to Francisco Mora, institutional coordinator of epidemiological surveillance and infectology, yesterday, Monday, December 27 it was an exceptional day, well they came to attend 225 patients with respiratory symptoms during the day.
“These peaks we hope they don’t become a trend, “he said in a television interview.
This Tuesday they will open 17 more beds in hospitalization. There were 57 hospitalized patients and the ICU was full, with 10 positions and one person waiting for that specialty.
In that IESS hospital, of those admitted, the 80% have been vaccinated and 20% have incomplete or unimmunized schedules.
Vaccination generates interest
For the second day in a row, it was recorded massive presence of users in the Metropolitan Sports Center, to the north of the city, to be vaccinated against COVID-19; many of them were waiting outside the site.
About 30 minutes waited Norma Jácome, 67, to receive the third dose of Pfizer.
The two previous vaccinations They were from the same pharmaceutical company.
He previously lined up outside that inoculation point.
He recalled that for his first two doses he also lined up both at the American school and at the Benalcázar school, but in those places it took longer.
It seemed appropriate to her that the vaccination certificate is requested Well, he argued that it is the only way for there to be protection for all.
“There are people who do not want to be vaccinated but they are putting everyone else at risk, “he said, so he hopes that he will be required to enter any public place.
Oswaldo Cuzco, 67, lined up outside the place. He indicated that the line was advancing.
Cuzco went to that place even though he did not live in the area and a relative told him that the Central University Coliseum was closed.
For him, getting vaccinated shouldn’t be mandatory But for certain citizens who “perhaps do not value their life, their health,” the Government established it as a requirement, he pointed out.
Monica Domínguez, 61 years old, also received the third dose of Pfizer due to allergy problems.
She waited around 45 minutes but he considered that there was agility in the attention.
From two to three hours was delayed for your previous doses at Bicentennial Park.
“I’d rather live a little longer for the safety of my family, my safety ”, were the reasons for accessing the immunization.
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