Three women, who need oxygen due to covid-19, are hospitalized in the San Pedro Claver hospital, whose director, María Elena Lescano, stressed that two of them have not received the vaccine against the disease and the other has only received one dose.
By instruction of the Departmental Health Service (Sedes), San Pedro Claver is responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of these patients.
“I have three patients hospitalized in the covid room, two without a vaccine and one with only one vaccine,” Lescano confirmed to Correo del Sur Radio FM 90.1, who detailed the ages of these people: 34, 37 and 48 years old.
Regarding his state of health, he said that all three are hospitalized with oxygen needs. “Let’s hope they don’t reach intensive care,” she said when she asked for the general population to be vaccinated against the disease.
“These are the people who don’t have the vaccine and are doing very badly, they need more oxygen,” the Director remarked about the cases treated during this sixth wave of the pandemic at the aforementioned hospital.
This season, San Pedro Claver, like other health centers, is experiencing problems with officials. However, they hope that medical, pharmaceutical, manual and technical staff for patient care will be re-hired by Friday.
Santa Bárbara hospital Emergencies chief Marcelo Valdivia said a patient hospitalized for polyneuropathy tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday and is under observation, being treated for his prevalent condition.
TRIAL
The symptoms of the new subvariants circulating in the country are similar to those of the flu, so the coronavirus can be ruled out with a nasal antigen or PCR test.
To take them, 54 municipal health centers are enabled that work continuously and five complete centers (Belén, Casegural, Azari, Alegría and Luis Espinal) that serve 24 hours and the San Pedro Claver hospital.
VACCINATION
According to updated data from the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI), in Chuquisaca 69% of the population was reached with the first dose, 61% with the second, 29% with the third and 7.9% with the second and fourth dose.
The age group with the highest percentage of vaccinations is that from 40 to 49 years, with 78%, at the first dose; 71% in the second, 35% in the third and 12.4% in the fourth. They are followed in percentage by those over that age.
On the other hand, there are the youngest, aged 5 to 11, a group in which 57% coverage was achieved with the first dose, 45% with the second, 14% with the third and 0.2 % with the fourth.
In Chuquisaca, the fifth dose has been applied to 1,797 people, which on instruction from the Ministry of Health is delivered only as a booster dose.
TRIAL
Tests to confirm or exclude the coronavirus are carried out in the first level centers from 8:00 to 14:00, while in the Alegría, Azari, Belén, Casegural and Luis Espinal comprehensive health centers 24 hours a day. They are also vaccinated against the disease .
