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Patients on the floor waiting for a hospital bed at Social Security | News from El Salvador

Healthcare professionals expose the harsh reality on their job sites. Similar scenes have been seen from the ISSS hospital for over a week now.

Health professionals consider the statements of the Government Press Secretary a “mockery” because they contrast with the reality they face in their jobs caring for patients, both in the public sector and Social Security.

More than repeating the reports of lack of supplies, hospital beds and even oxygen to care for patients with symptoms of COVID-19, professionals show images of the conditions in which they are fighting to save the lives of patients in hospitals. General and Medical Surgical, Social Security.

Overcrowding persists at ISSS General Hospital: Patients with COVID symptoms wait in hallways or on the floor

Similar scenes have been seen from the General Hospital for more than a week now; which contrast with the neatness and empty intensive care beds of the new El Salvador Hospital, at the Cifco facilities; and of which the Health Minister, Francisco Alabí, has said that the lack of operation of the new sanatorium is due to the lack of specialized personnel.

Medical personnel show images of the conditions in which they are fighting to save the lives of patients in Social Security. Photo: Courtesy

The first stage of the new El Salvador hospital was inaugurated on June 21 and according to official information it has 400 beds, of which 105 are for intensive care and 295 for intermediate care; as well as the hiring of 240 professionals, whose position and experience were not specified.

On the outskirts of the General Hospital building, doctors and patients estimate that there have been around a hundred patients receiving medical attention at that site, due to the lack of hospital beds.

VIDEO: Without oxygen, without stretchers and with an improvised ICU, the conditions of the ISSS General Hospital with COVID-19 patients

Initially, in that place what was going to work was an area for internal doctors to evaluate the patients and those who deserved to admit them to the hospital or refer them to another; but “since there is no space in the bedridden, they have to wait for a hospital bed to be released or for one of the hospitals designated by the government to attend to patients with Covid to vacate a space, unfortunately while there is no space, the patient must wait one shift, a bed ”, said the profession to that of medicine.

The lack of beds, oxygen and supplies is evident. EDH Photo / Courtesy

There are also limitations on staff to provide medical care, because they have been infected with COVID-19.

While these scenes are repeated, the infectologist Iván Solano Leiva criticizes that the new El Salvador Hospital is not working “not even 1%”.

Health professionals expose the harsh reality at their workplaces in Social Security hospitals. EDH Photo / Courtesy

According to sources from the General, last Tuesday they received a document from the Directorate of the Surgical Medical Hospital requesting support from the Internal Medicine and Critical Medicine services, where they were asked to rotate the doctors to support them, regardless of their specialty.

One of the doctors explained that factors such as having medical services where there are patients with Covid and other pathologies, in addition to doors, corridors and a common elevator make the probability of contagion greater; As an example, he added that there are three orthopedists disabled with suspected Covid, although they do not directly treat patients with this disease.

Iván Solano Leiva: “The El Salvador hospital is not working even at 1%”

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