According to the district health department, the units receive more patients, above 100% of normal circumstances.
The health table of the Tungurahua provincial Emergency Operations Committee (COE) met this Friday in order to analyze the situation of COVID-19 infections.
According to René Sanmartín, district health director, for two weeks due to the effects of mobility and Christmas and New Year meetings, the units have received more patients, above 100% of normal circumstances.
He acknowledged that although there is a greater influx of patients in outpatient consultations and emergencies, in hospitalizations they are not yet very complex, but he estimated that as the days go by and there is no joint responsibility of the citizenry, the second level of care could be complicated.
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Sanmartín added that seven days into the new year, there is concern about the crowds and lack of care of the people who registered on December 31.
He commented that in the hospital of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS) of Ambato there is a patient with COVID-19 in hospitalization, while in the General Teaching Ambato (HGDA) there are six, with a cut-off on Thursday night.
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Meanwhile, in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) in the IESS there is one patient and two in the HGDA, but he clarified that this is very changing.
For his part, the governor of Tungurahua, Fernando Gavilanes, said that so far the number of infected patients has not exceeded the operational capacity of the hospitals, considering that this is also due to the fact that 87% of the cases are registered in the province. vaccinated and that for that reason they do not have complications when they arrive at the health houses.
However, he questioned the population that despite the calls for co-responsibility it does not help, he mentioned that this Thursday, again in different sectors of Píllaro, evictions were carried out on people who summoned themselves in order to participate in the Diablada Pillareña clandestinely. . (I)
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