The Angels registered 18 thousand new cases and 318 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the most affected county in U.S due to the disease, that is why the Los Angeles Health authorities asked the emergency services do not enter patients unlikely to survive
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The overflow in hospitals for him COVID-19 is creating an overhead for paramedics and the ambulances to such a degree that an extraordinary directive ordered the aforementioned measure.
Patients adults with traumatic or non-traumatic cardiac arrest outside the hospital They will not be transported if the return of spontaneous circulation is not achieved on site.
“Paramedics are being given the ability to pronounce patients using the concord of a doctor, it requires that they make that contact before making the statement that this patient has died,” reported David Ortíz, of the Los Angeles Fire Department .
“Many hospitals have reached a crisis level and have no space, patients have spent hours in ambulances,” added Dr. Christina Ghaly of Los Angeles County.
During Christmas week the medical services office of emergency reported that up to 19 ambulances they waited in line to download patients in a hospital, while other patients have had to find another alternative to reach a medical center.
“I called an ambulance, it did not come, I had to call some friends to take them and they did as they could,” said Marco Domínguez, a resident of the place.
For now, people are discouraged from calling 911 unless absolutely necessary.
“Starting next week, patients arriving by ambulance will be treated outside the hospitals on stretchers to vacate the vehicles so that they can continue to serve other patients,” reported Dulce Castellanos, a Univision reporter.
Deaths by coronavirus in county of The Angels, exceeded 11 thousand deaths. Last week, the average number of deaths per day was 183, the equivalent of one every eight minutes.
“We completely transformed the funeral home, all funeral homes are transformed into battlefields, they are full of bodies,” said Magda Maldonado, owner of the funeral home.
In her 40 years in the funeral industry, Magda Maldonado had never rejected a family, but due to the deluge of deaths by COVID-19 it just doesn’t have more space.
“There are countless calls that we cannot attend, we had 125 to which we could not give attention,” Maldonado concluded.
On this front of the war against coronavirus, the only thing they can do is go ahead and prepare, as the worst is still expected this month.
With information from Univision
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