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Nurse Marisol Posada takes the body temperature of the patient Manuel Vicente Clavijo Velez. Most patients, although eager to recover, show joy and tranquility in their last stage of recovery.
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Nicolás Carvalho Ochoa
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Two months ago when the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic put the Spanish State, its services and its entire population in check, the country’s hoteliers were one of the first groups to react and offer their facilities to receive the sick in the fight against the Covid-19 and thus reduce the shortage of beds in hospital centers. TheMeliá Barcelona Sarrià, a 5-star hotel located in the center of Barcelona, was one of the main enclaves of the hotel medicalization project called “Hotel Salut”.
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Nurse Marisol Posada checks the oxygen saturation in Miguel Moral Moreno. Twice a day the nurses designated to work at the Meliá Barcelona Sarrià go through the rooms to carry out the general check-up and attend to various queries and requests from patients.
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Nicolás Carvalho Ochoa
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During the most serious days of the outbreak when the death toll did not stop growing exponentially, the Meliá, at the service of theVall d´Hebrón Hospital, came to house more than 300 patients in a mild state who had to pass their last stage of recovery and the 14 days of quarantine under the control of the auxiliary nursing care technicians of the Montnegre Primary Care Center.
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Nurses Marisol Posada and María Magdalena Alonzo check the temperature and oxygen saturation of Karla Arteaga Fuentes and her family. Both of her children had tested positive for coronavirus and after 14 days they will return to the hospital to have a new test.
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Nicolás Carvalho Ochoa
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As of today, the 307-room hotel accommodates just over 40 patients, only 15% of those most troubled days. Isolated in the hotel, they spend a couple of weeks inside their rooms while waiting anxiously and nervously for their speedy recovery. To help in this last step, the treatment and humanity of both the hotel staff and the nurses is remarkable:They do not miss an opportunity to make each guest happy and comfortable and safe.Despite the crisis situation, the general atmosphere inside the hotel is very pleasant.
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Accompanied by the message “everything will be fine”, two ambulance technicians wait at the entrance of the hotel for a patient who will be transferred to the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital to undergo a coronavirus PCR test.
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Nicolás Carvalho Ochoa
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The number of patients arriving each day, mostly from Intensive Care Units and homeless shelters, has decreased dramatically. With only between 1 and 3 daily admissions and with outputs of between 3 and 5 patients recovered depending on the day, the black numbers of the virus happily continue to drop in an escalating manner.
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The patient Jenny Liliana is received by the hotel staff and registers her admission to the Hotel Meliá Barcelona Sarrià. Next, you will take your temperature, pulse and examine your medical history before entering your room, which you will not be able to leave until you guarantee your perfect state of health.
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Nicolás Carvalho Ochoa
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If everything continues at this same rate and there is no setback, in a period of 2 or 3 weeks they will be dismantling the“Hotel Salut” of Melià Barcelona Sarrià.It remains to know when the day will be when life returns to“normal”, and that the hotel does not receive patients, but thousands of tourists who visit Barcelona for pure pleasure.
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