04/06/2021 17:59
Clarín.com
Zonal
Updated 04/06/2021 18:26
As soon as the news was known, the alerts went on.
And justly because the
Austral Hospital
, one of the historic private health institutions in Pilar, is already practically
at 100% capacity
.
At least in terms of the number of
intensive care beds
, an area in which there is barely
one unit left
.
"For many months
we have had all the beds occupied,
having almost doubled them. We went from 15 to 28 and today, trying to optimize resources,
there is one free,
" said the Head of Intensive Care, Pablo Pratesi.
The person in charge of the area also asserted that what happens in the aforementioned unit of the recognized establishment in the North of Greater Buenos Aires is the same "that
is happening in the vast majority of institutions
, both public and private" in
the Greater Buenos Aires
.
Historical.
Austral Hospital is one of the most recognized health institutions in the region.
In this vein, Pratesi remarked that the current non-postponement of interventions already programmed (as it was carried out throughout 2020) have direct interference with the circumstance.
"Many patients who required procedures cannot be suspended or delayed so much in time. Therefore,
we are using part of the hospital sectors for non-COVID patients, separating the areas,
" he said in dialogue with the local program Code Plaza ( Radio FM Plaza 92.1).
The head of Intensive Care of Austral, an area in which 26 doctors, 60 nurses and 14 kinesiologists work divided into different shifts, also stressed that the replacement of patients does not allow decompressing the situation and expressed his concern about what may happen in the following days.
"Of the total number of doctors, 18 we were infected and suffered from the disease in our own body. One of the consequences is exhaustion, which is felt even though we have the collaboration of various hospital services such as cardiology, clinic and anesthesia.
We need society Help prevent so much spread of the disease
. If what happened in 2020 happens again with the new strains of the virus, which apparently are more contagious,
the wave will cover us much more,
"he explained in the radio strip. Pilarense 'Personally' (FM Estudio 2 / 105.9).
COVID.
Pratesi had the illness.
"The exhaustion is still being felt," he said.
Similarly, Pratesi warned that if there are more patients to attend than available beds, there is "a system to select" hospitalizations.
"There are options, such as
accommodating the patient with the ventilator in the emergency service or in the operating rooms
. We could enhance surgery for seriously ill patients, if that were the case," he explained.
Finally, he concluded by exemplifying what happened in Brazil: "I understand the exhaustion of people's confinement, but
we have to take care of ourselves
because
otherwise there will
be many
more cases, more deaths and things are going to get much worse
. This is what we are seeing.
In other countries, the second wave was worse than the first
. In São Paulo they were left without oxygen. It is not that they did not have intensive care beds, they no longer had oxygen. We knew that what was happening in the Brazilian south was going to reach our country.
Let's limit the borders of our houses
to prevent the virus from
entering
,
limit social activity
, use the mask at all times and comply with the distancing. "
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