COVID-19 :
The Isabel Zendal nursing hospital in Madrid currently has 70 patients Covid has admitted, including 5 in intensive care units (ICU), and may expand its capacity up to 250 beds.
This was detailed by the Minister of Health, Image by balise Enrique Ruiz Escudero, in an interview with RNE, in which he insists that Zendal is not a “marketing operation” but a “necessity marked by the pandemic”.
In this line, he defended that it is always “positive” to add a new center to the regional hospital network and underlined that currently its function is to provide assistance to the rest of the hospitals, taking care of the affected patients. of mild Covid while the rest of the network can also face other pathologies.
In total, 135 patients have already passed through this “hospital with a monographic profile”, as Escudero describes it, and the Community’s intention is for the number of patients in this center to increase, relieving the rest of the network.
Likewise, he accused the concentration of “necessary health care” which accused him, the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the Minister of Finance and former Minister of Health, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, of wanting to dismantle the public health. “The Isabel Zendal Hospital is a public hospital,” said Ruiz Escudero.
The “Sanitarios necessary” group met on Monday at Puerta del Sol to protest against the “absurdities” of the construction of the Isabel Zendal hospital and the “abuse and waste” it entails. To visualize their disagreement, they performed a “performance” in which the assistants fell to the ground and pretended to be patients admitted to the ICU.
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