The situation is critical, similar or worse than in March. This is the warning that the University Hospital Complex of A Coruña (Chuac) before the unstoppable rise in hospital admissions due to Covid. The occupation of the Intensive Care Unit in the Covid Unit is close to 75%. Every day there are admissions of people affected by this disease, up to four new ones in one day.
The president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured that, “for the moment”, the Galician Executive does not plan to deploy field hospitals in the Community, although he has also insisted that nothing can be “ruled out”, since this The type of measures will depend on how the incidence of the pandemic evolves.
Of course, after stressing that, for example, there is already a “Important” healthcare pressure in A Coruña, has argued that, before proceeding to activate field hospitals, they would choose to make “a redistribution” with the ICUs of “more modern” hospitals such as those of Lugo and Vigo. The ExpoCoruña fairgrounds have been prepared as a field hospital from the first wave.
The management of the A Coruña hospital will study tomorrow the possibility of postponing non-urgent operations to attend to the increase in patients with Covid.
More and more young people in the ICU
Doctors warn of the young age of many of them. The head of the UCI service in Chuac, David Freire, he warns: “on occasions and in a curiously more frequent way than the first wave, they are younger patients and some without previous pathology; it is important to take all this into account, because if not, the pandemic will be able to with us”.
The head of the UCI calls for individual responsibilityand collective and calls for a reduction to the maximum in visits to the hospital: “Only one family member per patient, who is under 70 years of age and only in those cases that are considered essential.”
“Going to the hospital, for example, to talk to a doctor or something important, sign a consent,” he cites as examples. And, in the current context, it insists that it is “facing a problem of individual responsibility.”
For this reason, he asks “to leave home only what is strictly necessary such as going to work, to the doctor, to the hospital.” “The minimum essential,” asserts the head of the ICU in Chuac, who maintains that “the best applause” that health workers should expect is that people “stay at home.”
Balance sheet
The Hospital of A Coruña has closed five nursing units to allocate them to Covid patients due to the increase in cases. Yesterday one of the Traumatology departments was closed. Each unit has about 32 hospital beds. Currently more than a hundred are occupied.
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