Ten doctors have died in Peru by the covid-19 since the beginning of 2021, which shows an average of one doctor died every less than two days in these first weeks of the year, as warned this Monday, January 18, 2021, Medical College of Peru.
In total there are already 266 Peruvian doctors killed by covid-19 from the beginning of the pandemic, whose second wave of infections is currently growing in the South American country and the health system has again collapsed, especially in the units of intensive care (UCI).
Doctors infected by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in Peru They amount to 12,755, of which 42 are in the ICU and require assisted breathing, according to the latest report released by the Medical College.
“Once again we are witnessing this irreparable pain that leaves a deep void in their relatives and colleagues who will no longer see them,” said the dean of the Medical College, Miguel Palacios.
“Currently we have colleagues who, due to their condition, need to be transferred to the capital, but unfortunately there are no camas UCI in any hospital. We ask the government to be concerned about our colleagues as they need us to continue saving lives, “he added.
Victims of sanitary overflow
Doctors themselves are victims of the collapse of the wards FIA in hospitals in much of the country, which since Saturday have broken the record for occupied mechanical ventilators, above the worst moment of the pandemic lived in mid-August.
There are currently 1,646 covid-19 patients in wards FIA connected to mechanical ventilation, almost a hundred more than the record registered in the first wave, where 1,553 artificial respirators were used at the same time for severe cases of the disease.
Hospitalizations continue to grow and among seriously and moderately ill patients under medical observation there are already 8,614 occupied beds, almost 5,000 more than there were practically a month and a half ago, when the lowest number of hospitalizations due to covid-19 was recorded since the rise of the first wave.
Acceleration of infections and deaths
According to the latest report of the pandemic offered on Sunday by the Ministry of Health, Peru accumulates three consecutive days with more than 100 deaths with a positive test for covid-19, a trend that was not seen since the second week of September and that raised the number of deaths to 38,871 deaths.
The new infections reached 4,342 cases confirmed, an amount that had not been reached since the first week of October and that ratifies the acceleration of the second wave whose existence was not recognized by the Government until last week.
The total number of confirmed symptomatic cases increased to 1,064,909, although the regional government records, which count asymptomatic and suspected cases, mark double the accumulated infections to exceed two million.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday the signing of an agreement for the air transport from China of the first of the 38 million doses of the vaccine from the Sinopharm laboratory that the Peruvian government promised to acquire and which is expected to arrive during this month of January.
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