The intense work of the professionals at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to over 1,000 hospital discharges from patients affected by the coronavirus.
The Gregorio Marañón Hospital has significantly increased its hospital beds to try to offer the best possible care for your patients during this exceptional period health demand that for several weeks it has substantially exceeded a thousand patients admitted.
Currently, the attendance of patients in the center’s Emergency Service has fallen by around 40% compared to the days of greatest healthcare demand during the pandemic. This situation, together with the daily discharges, has allowed the number of current admissions to go up to around 900 patients and maintain a slight continuous decrease in recent days.
The Gregorio Marañón Hospital is hovering around an average of 80 to 90 discharges every dayThus, if this trend continues, the center would begin to consider a withdrawal strategy in certain areas of hospitalization.
Doctor Jesús Millán, head of the Internal Medicine Service of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital
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In order to implement this withdrawal strategy, it is essential that the current trend of slight decline be maintained, so citizens are asked to maintain the confinement measures established by the authorities and take extreme measures to prevent and contain the coronavirus. . That the numbers begin to be hopeful cannot be interpreted as the danger and the high risk of infection have passed. The collaboration of citizens is essential to help the healthcare system offer the best healthcare possible to patients who need it.
