The evolution of the impact of pandemic and the increase in cases brings Mendoza closer to the mitigation stage to face the coronavirus. In this sense, there are two measures that they assess to implement in the short term: authorize the home hospitalization and consider positive cases without testing a group of people.
These two measures are aimed at avoiding stress on the Health by admitting everyone and, on the other hand, speeding up the case-finding process.
The home hospitalization It has already started in fact in some specific cases and in the next few days the protocol for those cases will be made official. The Undersecretary of Health, Oscar Sags, confirmed that they are analyzing executing the home hospitalization protocol for patients who are isolated at home and receive the positive result of the test there and as long as they are under 65 years of age and do not have pathologies that may complicate picture.
The protocol established for alternative care sites already provides for the possibility of patients being admitted to the home. And there are cases where it happened “in fact”. The discharge will be given 10 days later, counting on 3 days without symptoms.
Diagnstico
In the case of diagnostics, the Province also evaluates adopting the new criteria recommended by the Nation for the provinces where the virus is circulating. That is, dispense with tests to diagnose people living with a patient who carries the virus and had close contact. We are evaluating when to do so, but progress is likely, Sags said. For now in the province, all diagnosed cases respond to a PCR test.
At the level of containment (which is not abandoned as a strategy), they also evaluate when to enable alternative sites of isolation. For now, in addition to hospitals, where patients at risk or with syndrome acute patients, they are admitted to the special ward of the Lencinas Hospital and in Hotels.
The key data, however, is not in the beds of low complexity, which have a flexible capacity, but the number of people admitted to intensive care. TOCurrently in Greater Mendoza the occupation of these services is 70%. According to Oscar Sags, the critical point would be when the occupation reaches 85%. This data will be key for Governor Rodolfo Suarez and President Alberto Fernndez to decide what to do: whether to keep Mendoza within social distancing or backtrack and return to phase 1 as happened with some localities.
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