The specialists won their case by pleading for a more significant and more effective involvement of public establishments.
It is the commotion of combat, the alert being maximum. The expansion of health structures continues. Arranged to accommodate patients with Covid-19, the hospital
of El Karma in the daïra of Es Senia is now operational. This one opened its doors yesterday. The latter, with a capacity of 100 beds, is attached to the CHU doctor Benzerdjeb, ex-Plateau. The specialists and doctors involved in the fight against Covid-19 ended up winning their case. Several of the latter pleaded for a more significant and more effective involvement of local public health establishments (Epsp) in the fight against the virus to relieve the medical and paramedical personnel ”. “After nearly 18 months of struggle, the medical and paramedical staff of the services involved in the fight against Covid-19 are tired, saturated and overwhelmed”, indicates a doctor, adding that “these personnel need respite, rest from warrior to come back stronger ”. “We are really exhausted”, we summarized. “Fatigue is felt in more than one and all the people involved in this fight, from department heads to support agents through to paramedics really need rest,” pleaded another doctor. “We really need support,” he added. The health department of the wilaya of Oran has deemed it useful to redouble its efforts, and this in the context of readjusting the strategy to fight against Covid-19. “The Epsps will be directly involved in this fight against Covid-19. The sorting of suspected cases and the orientation and even the prescription of the treatment if necessary will be done at their level ”, one informed. The pandemic situation in the wilaya of Oran is more alarming than ever. The upsurge in daily cases of Covid-19 has directly impacted hospital admissions. The warnings of specialists during the last weeks are confirmed today by the epidemic situation which begins to deteriorate with the figures which do not cease increasing over the days, across the whole national territory. Sources close to the local directorate of health and the population reveal that “the average daily contamination has climbed. It goes from 35 to 40 cases per day during the month of June, to 50 daily contaminations during this month of July ”. The intensive care unit has been receiving more patients for ten days. It is revealed that “the 240 beds of the Nedjma hospital, ex-Chetaibo, are full, the intensive care unit is also saturated, and about twenty beds equipped with invasive mechanical ventilation (vmi), necessary for the management respiratory distress are also all taken ”. The toll is more worrying than ever and the pandemic has also made flagrant the lack of medical infrastructure and human resources, “the number of daily deaths has tripled from one death every three days, to one per day”, he added. he lamented. The concern is all the more general, as specialists sound the alarm by pleading for urgent measures, namely “confinement, compulsory wearing of masks, mass vaccination, in addition to respecting social distancing”.
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