Asunción, IP Company.- “This progress has by no means occurred earlier than within the Ministry of Well being, there was at all times a deficit within the variety of beds but in addition the variety of personnel,” mentioned the director of Intensive Care of the Ministry of Well being, Leticia Pintos, this Monday. The well being system elevated from 308 to 509 beds this yr.
So as to confront the brand new coronavirus, the Ministry of Public Well being and Social Welfare deliberate a number of actions, together with rising the variety of beds within the Intensive Care Unit, which elevated by 201 beds through the pandemic; Likewise, extra wide-range tools and medical provides had been acquired and obtained as donations.
The director of Intensive Care of the Ministry of Well being defined that in the beginning of the yr there have been 308 beds within the ICUs, and up to now there are 509 beds. For this, small companies had been strengthened, rising them. They had been additionally enabled in cities the place there was beforehand no remedy.
“There was a rise of 201 extra beds, in precept, and the small companies within the inside of the nation had been expanded and strengthened, since there have been solely 2 or 3 beds they usually had been expanded to eight, which is the variety of sufferers {that a} hospital can take care of. therapeutic physician,” he famous.
In dialog with Radio Nacional del Paraguay, he indicated that of the 509 ICU beds nationwide, each for adults, pediatrics and neonatal, there’s an occupancy of 77%, most of them are on account of respiratory situations, whether or not Covid-19 constructive or not.
“It’s a large job to have the ability to improve the beds as a result of it relies on the employees in white; in some hospitals, constructing renovations had been carried out to adapt all of the remedy companies,” he alleged.
He highlighted that the principle work was the unification and integration with the Social Safety Institute (IPS) each in Human Sources and in constructing capability and tools.
“This progress has by no means occurred earlier than within the Ministry of Well being, there was at all times a deficit within the variety of beds but in addition the variety of personnel. Presently, the employees is being reorganized, in order that there are one or two intensivists and the remainder is roofed by professionals from associated specialties resembling pulmonologists, medical clinic residents who even have coaching, who rotate by the service throughout their residencies,” he expressed.
Presently, the well being portfolio is devoted to strengthening the emblematic hospitals within the central space such because the Barrio Obrero, which doesn’t have an ICU however a constructing sector was tailored for a resuscitation room, with respirators, screens, and educated personnel for the administration of severely unwell sufferers. , present care whereas they’re transferred or improved and moved to a typical room. “That is being executed in a number of hospitals,” he mentioned.
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2024-06-05 00:06:43
