Four of the five users of the Support and Solidarity Center of Pousa (CASP), in Barcelos, infected with Covid-19, were transported this morning by the Red Cross of Aldreu (Barcelos) and the Red Cross of Maia to the Hospital of Barcelos.
Another user, in more serious conditions, was transported to Braga Hospital, O MINHO learned on the spot.
Photo: Vítor Vasconcelos / O MINHO
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It was 7:30 pm when the first infected was transported by the Barcelinhos Firefighters to the Barcelos Hospital. Then, he was eventually referred to the Braga Hospital.
The remaining users, after a long wait for the services of the Red Cross, were transported at about 2 am this morning to the Hospital de Barcelos.
The remaining 19 users who did not test positive for the infection of the new coronavirus should be transported to Silva’s seminar, also in Barcelos, throughout today.
Photo: Vítor Vasconcelos / O MINHO
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This movement is due to the lack of employees at CASP. According to Miguel Costa Gomes, Mayor of Barcelos, CASP “has no internal conditions”, both in terms of facilities and personnel, to guarantee the necessary isolation, separating the infected from the non-infected.
“We are going to remove those who are not infected from the home and put them in a private health unit,” Costa Gomes had said on Monday.
On Sunday, CASP’s chairman, Joaquim Pereira, told Lusa that five elderly people and four employees infected with covid-19 were already counted.
The five users who tested positive were in isolation at the institution. The remaining 19 users remained asymptomatic.
Of the 31 employees that the institution has, and still according to Joaquim Pereira, only “less than half a dozen” were employed.
Of the rest, four are at home after having tested positive for covid-19 and the others either have symptoms of the disease, or are in quarantine, including the two nurses at the institution.
Yesterday tests were carried out on all users and employees, to ascertain the real point of the situation.
According to the mayor, the case of Pousa is, in terms of institutions, the “most difficult” in the municipality, since it has evolved “very quickly”. For the rest, added the mayor, “everything is calm”.
In the municipality, there are 650 users in homes, with 646 in day centers and 444 who have home support.
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