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04/28/2021 4:47 PM
Clarín.com
Zonal
Updated 04/28/2021 4:49 PM
In different sanatoriums, clinics and private or public health centers of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, the
health collapse
that is generating the second wave of coronavirus is
beginning to have a strong impact
.
In the Sanatorio de
la Trinidad
de San Isidro, located at Avenida Fondo de la Legua 851, they had to set up an
internment room
in the
parking lot
, according to patients and doctors.
"There is an internment floor that works in the first basement, which works half as an internment and at the same time as a parking lot," said a nurse at the health center who asked to reserve her identity.
Mar del Plata: Fifty rooms with more than 100 beds were conditioned to have patients in hotels.
On the other hand, a patient who went to the Sanatorium last week to have an operation added: “There is a sector that
shares valet parking cars with beds for patients
with outpatient hospitalization.
It is a large space that occupies the central part of the first basement parking lot ”.
In addition, he assured that the sector is "closed or covered, not visible", restricted to the general public.
The clinic is one of the four locations that La Trinidad has in the AMBA.
The others are also in
San Isidro
, in
Quilmes
,
Ramos Mejía
and
Palermo
.
Clarín
tried to communicate with the authorities of the medical center but they did not respond.
According to reports from the Municipality of San Isidro, the hospitalization capacity in that district reaches 90%, while 64.4% of hospital beds are occupied and the Intensive Care Units (ICU) reach 76%.
"Today it is true that there are no private beds in the entire Metropolitan Area"
Gustavo Posse (mayor of San Isidro)
Against this background,
Gustavo Posse
, the district mayor, argued that in municipal hospitals "there are no excess or lack of beds." In addition, he assured: “Our problem, unlike last year, is that before we managed to level a patient within a municipal hospital and then refer him to the center that gave him his prepaid, take him to a private clinic. Today it is true that
there are no private beds in the entire Metropolitan Area
. So that changes our way of seeing where the edge is ”.
“Today the worrying thing is, especially in the private system, the number of people who arrive late.
People 10 years younger on average who arrive later at the private care center and obviously are going to take much longer to recover and in some cases they are not going to recover, "added Posse.
However, he stressed that the district "is not in an emergency."
“We took precaution long beforehand to train people for intensive care units.
To convert, thinking about the re-outbreak of COVID, to the main hospitals and take care of medical care or other specialties to the primary health centers, ”he explained.
The community chief also considered that despite the outbreak in San Isidro “we are doing well” and added: “In reality, the future of this has to do fundamentally with the individual and collective behaviors that affect how many people continue to be infected.
How long the restrictions that were practiced with the schedules and both public and private education are working.
You have to see how much of that generates a break in the trend regarding the number of infected.
On the other hand, the City of Buenos Aires registers an alarming peak.
According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health, only 82 intensive care beds are available out of the 450 in the public sector, reaching 81.7% of ICU units.
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