B. Eugenia Giraldo
THE COUNTRY | MANIZALES
The isolation conditions at the Guadalupe Geriatric Home, in Manizales, tend to improve, after it was known that 83 adults and 12 employees were positive for covid-19.
To this is added the Hogar San Francisco, in the Cristo Rey neighborhood, which is already under surveillance and on health alert. According to the Secretary of Health, Carlos Humberto Orozco, there are people with symptoms there, so a Pandemic Containment Team (ECO) did the testing in order to detect cases.
Yesterday, EPS Asmet Salud announced that it assumes responsibility for 28 of the 39 people under its charge. For this, it will contract with two hotels where they will remain in isolation.
According to Orozco, the objective is to reduce the population that resides in the Home to isolate a maximum of two people per cubicle and thus give greater scope to neutralize the viral concentration.
He added that so far there is absolute control of this population. He announced that next week one hundred percent of caregivers in geriatric homes will be tested in order to detect which ones are affected.
Reply
Orozco also said that the adults who are still in the Home will have medical attention twice a day to check signs and symptoms and evaluate the behavior of pulse oximetry and temperature. He added that this guarantees an immediate response if there is a need to refer them to a hospital.
According to the secretary, the geriatric homes in Manizales received a monthly visit from Secretariat staff, which was then biweekly, whose objective has been to guarantee the isolation of the elderly, for which it is required that they do not leave the premises and that the caregivers do everything possible not to bring the infection home.
He stated that the Elderly Health program guarantees protection and that the Hogar Guadalupe still did not go out to the parks.
“They are two independent things, because we defend that as long as there is bioprotection there is security.”
Aids
Yesterday they delivered elements of personal protection for adults and caregivers and through the Ministry of Social Development they provided food aid and the contract was adjusted so that through the agreement the Home had more resources, in order to hire nursing assistants and nursing staff. kitchen and toilet. The Ministry of Health will also provide nutritional advice.
The secretary invited the foundations and home to have a plan B that allows them to react when something similar happens, not only to replace employees in case they become infected, but also to have a training scheme and provide them with protection elements.
In hospitals
3 people in Assbasalud – San Cayetano
15 at the San Isidro General Hospital,
6 hospitalized with moderate symptoms
1 with severe symptoms
1 deceased, that without having an effective diagnosis of covid-19, the probability of being attributed to this disease is high.
Phrase
“The loss of control over self-care measures means that the segment that has been most infected is between 20 and 49 years old, who are those who bring the infection to homes. Of the 12 deceased by covid-19 in Manizales, only one corresponds to Hogar Guadalupe, the rest are mothers and fathers in any neighborhood of the city ”, Carlos Humberto Orozco.
Given
At this time there are 170 free beds for general hospitalization, 75 ventilators available and about 40 for Intermediate Care.
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