Intensive care units are on the verge of suffocation in Argentine Due to the coronavirus epidemic, alerted the professionals of the health of this country where more than 9000 people succumbed to it.
The main problem is the shortage of intensive care personnel who, unlike beds and ventilators, cannot multiply. We intensive care specialists are at the limit of our strength, thinned by disease, exhausted by the continuous and intense work of having to treat more and more patients.
, wrote the Argentine Society of Intensive Therapy (SATI) in a letter.
We only ask society to think about and stick to three simple but important steps. […] We ask you to do not go out if it is not necessary. Health workers are collapsing, caregivers are collapsing, the health system is on the brink of collapse […] We can’t do it alone
, adds the organization.
Representatives of SATI were received by President Alberto Fernandez in his official residence after the publication of this text.
Isolation to get out of the crisis
The only way to avoid disaster is to reduce contagion, and there is no tool other than isolation. The opening (of activities) is an invitation to chaos
, launched one of them, Arnaldo Dubin, at the end of this interview.
According to the Ministry of Health, the occupancy of intensive care beds reaches 61.1% nationwide, and up to 68.8% in the Buenos Aires region, where a third of the national population lives. which concentrates most of the outbreaks.
Arnaldo Dubin said he doubted this figure and estimated the occupancy rate for the capital and its periphery at 90%.
Argentina has recorded 10,933 new contaminations, for a total of 439,159, and deplores a total of 9,118 deaths, according to the latest report released Wednesday by the Ministry of Health of this country of 44 million inhabitants.
According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional branch of the WHO, the American continent has the largest number of caregivers in the world infected with Covid-19, with nearly 570,000 cases and 2,500 deaths.
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