Claudio Andrade
04/27/2021 8:58 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/27/2021 8:58 PM
Bariloche is in
a critical situation
due to the increase in coronavirus cases and there are no longer beds available both in intensive care and in intermediate and common room.
In a press conference, the directors and heads of therapy from the main centers of the tourist city
asked the population to move as much as necessary
to avoid infections because
the local health system is collapsed.
“There are no intensive care beds in the Zonal de Bariloche (HZB), nor in the Regional Private Hospital, nor in the San Carlos”, summarized Leonardo Gil, director of the HZB.
In addition to Gil, Esteban Carfagna, head of Intensive Therapy at the Regional Private Hospital (HPR);
Diego Fernández, head of Intensive Care at the San Carlos Sanatorium, and Alejandro Menant, medical director of Intecnus.
“We ask to avoid everything that is unnecessary to do.
Become aware of the situation.
For more than a year the health system was up to the task and responding to the community.
There is an explosive increase in cases, ”
added Gil.
He also added a worrying fact: "Yesterday (Monday) the hospital treated almost 300 people, 80% are under 40 years old."
Faced with this situation, the governor of Río Negro, Arabela Carreras, will announce this Wednesday the suspension of face-to-face classes in the province for a period of 15 days, according to what happened tonight.
Of the 2,158 active cases in Río Negro, 1,551 correspond to Bariloche, where 272 have died.
The director of the Zonal Hospital warned that there is a weekly increase of 63% in new cases.
In this context, statistics indicate that for every 1,000 patients per week, 20% need hospitalization and 2.5% end up in intensive care.
“We would need between 25 and 30 weekly therapy beds
that we do not have because, on average, a patient is between 20 and 25 days of stay in therapy, so a bottleneck is formed which is what is happening at the moment ”, Gil completed.
"We have patients waiting for a place in intensive care, in the general inpatient ward, in the ward ... and at this point we have patients out of intensive care with mechanical ventilation as well," said Fernández, from the San Carlos Sanatorium.
“It is being seen that today
the patients who are requiring therapy are younger
than those of last year.
The average age is lower than a year ago, ”said Carfagna, a therapist at the Regional Private Hospital.
Meanwhile, Menant, director of Intecnus, said that "
a situation of real collapse has arrived
, there is no availability of beds in therapy to be able to face this pandemic."
So far, no patients have been referred to other locations with available beds such as Cipolletti and General Roca, which are located about 500 kilometers away.
According to the latest statistics reported, Río Negro has occupied 83.42% of the 181 intensive care beds in the provincial system.