Medical Intensive Care unit of the University Hospital Complex of A Coruña have been doing a tribute to the nursing staff and auxiliary, as well as wardensresponding to a request from the Spanish Society of Intensive Medicine, Critical and Coronary Units (Semicyuc).
They have made it to the middle of the morning exhibiting for couples different signs which she could read: ‘all the medical staff of the ICU of the Chuac we would like to thank the nurses, assistants and wardens for the great work done in this pandemic. Many thanks for your work”. Then, you have expressed with a round of applause this thanksgiving.
Extraordinary challenge in a context of overload
The head of Service of the ICU of the Chuac, David Freire, has pointed out the “challenge extraordinary” which is the COVID-19 in a context of “overload” of work. All in all, it has highlighted the “great professional work” of all groups and, especially, of today’s honorees.
It also has an impact on the conditions of work with patients in “very serious”. “Over 97% of them need respiratory support-invasive, intubated, and, if it is not already little, having that upside down”, a change that requires “up to four and five people,” he explained to to praise the work of the non-medical staff. To this end, it has added to the situation of patients that also need monitoring devices or to be connected to dialysis machines.
For his part, Fernando Mosteiro, one of the physicians of the ICU, has described as “terrible,” “overload” on these units. However, he stressed that this work has brought to the surface, in turn,”feelings and attitudes very positive especially on the part of nurses, carers and auxiliary nurses”, and has praised the “partnership and teamwork”.
The Xunta delivery honey, cheeses and potatoes to the Hospital
The Consellería do Medio Rural has made delivery this Thursday of several pounds of honey, cheese and potatoes University Hospital complex of A Coruña (CHUAC)a transfer of food that is in addition to the other donations that carries done the galician Government in these times of health emergency.
In addition, in this day also have provided various agri-food products to the hospital Lucus Augusti, that of Monforte de Lemos and the of To Mariña, as well as to the headquarters of Caritas and the Food Bank in Lugo, to cater to the most disadvantaged groups during the state of alarm.
This donation, has explained the regional Ministry of Rural Environment, will also be extended in the next few days to the hospitals of Santiago, Ourense and Ferrol.
In this way, the foods are purchased through the new marketing channel driven by the Xunta, Mercaproximidade, with the aim of helping small farmers and ranchers gallegos to give an outlet for their surplus. In this way, ‘also minimizes the loss of income of these professionals’ that have closed their normal channels of sales, such as catering and hospitality.
Since the launch of this new formula on sale the 15th of April, more than 370-processing industries and agricultural producers have joined to Mercaproximidade, to provide an outlet for their products. In addition, they also help a total of ten supermarket chains.
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