Spain, in Catalonia holidays for health workers ‘at risk’
“He asks me if the holidays (of health workers) are at risk, my answer is yes”: the councilor for health of Catalonia, Josep Maria Argimon, did not use half a term, regarding the situation of hospitals and local health authorities in this Spanish region, besieged by covid. These are statements made to the newspaper El País. “The decision is not taken by the councilor, but by each health center”, he added, also stating that in Catalonia – the region most affected so far by the current wave of infections in Spain – the peak of hospitalizations for covid. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, coronavirus infected patients occupy over 44% of the beds available in intensive care units in the region. Various media reports even more worrying situations: in the Hospital del Mare in Barcelona, for example, employment in intensive care has reached 120%, says radio Cadena Ser. Pere Domingo, the head of the covid unit of the Sant Pau hospital. , also in Barcelona, told the same broadcaster that half of the patients admitted to intensive care there are under 30 years old. Last week the region issued a directive calling for the suspension of operations and other health activities considered non-urgent.
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