The overload of internal medicine in Santiago forces the use of the Gil Casares unit, which always closed in the summer

Critical care of a person with covid-19 admitted to the Clinical Hospital, in a file photo ANA VARELA

Very frail elderly patients and covid trigger the demand for care in the Hospital Complex

05 jul 2022 . Updated at 05:00.

The 42 internal medicine beds at Gil Casares Hospital remain open, due to the care overload that this service attends. This unit used to be one of the first to close, already before the summer. But this


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