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They send reinforcement of 100 health professionals to Miami public hospitals


Governor DeSantis signed a 60-day extension of the executive order declaring a state of sanitary emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic, initially issued in March this year.

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EFE


The US state of Florida will send a hundred nursing professionals to the Miami-Dade County Jackson Health System, after the public entity with several hospitals asked for help due to the significant increase in income due to the transmission of covid-19 in recent days. .

In a press conference that took place this Tuesday 7-J at the former Panamerican Health Center in Miami, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the state will send 100 contracted health professionals, mostly nurses, to increase the Jackson Health System operations.

“Nurses are needed to help isolate and treat people who enter hospitals for non-covid reasons and then test positive,” the governor explained at the press conference.

“People have not stopped suddenly having heart attacks and have not felt so comfortable seeking medical attention” in Florida, the governor said.

Along with DeSantis was Carlos Giménez, mayor of Miami-Dade, the county considered the epicenter of the pandemic in Florida, where there have been 50,000 cases of covid-19 since last March 1 until today.

The governor said the federal government is also working to send additional nurses to South Florida, but that he wanted to act sooner.

Florida Extends State of Health Emergency

DeSantis also signed on Tuesday a 60-day extension of the executive order declaring a state of sanitary emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic, initially issued in March this year.

Order 20-166 was dated in Tallahassee, the state capital, and extends the 20-52 of March 9, which aims to facilitate the purchase of products to combat the disease and to hire personnel for the same purpose out of state.

Sicker and younger

According to the local Miami Herald newspaper, the Jackson Memorial has dealt with a steady increase in COVID-19 patients in the past month.

This hospital has been seeing waves of younger patients of working age who have no choice but to work and, in turn, expose themselves to the virus, said Jackson Health System president Carlos Migoya, according to the same newspaper.

Migoya asked DeSantis for help Monday night, according to a hospital spokesman quoted by the Herald.

In addition to the Jackson Memorial, the system consists of other centers such as Jackson South Medical Center, Jackson North Medical Center, Holtz Children’s Hospital, Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center, and a network of small centers operating at the neighborhood level called UHealth Jackson Urgent Care.

According to updated data from the private website Florida COVID Action, at the Jackson Memorial there are a total of 426 beds available, including 25 in the adult intensive care unit (ICU) and 3 in the one for children.

Jackson North Miami Beach Hospital has 112 beds, including one ICU, and Jackson South Medical Center has 50 beds available, including 4 for intensive care adults.

Miami-Dade County, with 6,801 hospital beds, currently has 1,809 available, 21% of the total, while Florida currently has 1,214 ICU beds, according to the website of the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA, in English).

In Miami-Dade, the main focus of covid-19 in the state, there have been 51,028 cases so far, counting 2,066 in the last 24 hours, and 1,057 deaths, six more than yesterday, according to the Florida Department of Health.

County authorities have reacted with campaigns to raise awareness of the need to wear face masks, respect safety distances and exercise extreme hygiene, and also with measures that affect restaurants, gyms and other premises that had reopened in June after remain closed in most cases from March.

In the last 24 hours, 7,437 new cases and 63 deaths from the disease were recorded throughout the state.

Since March 1, Florida accumulates 213,794 cases of coronaviruses, of which the vast majority have occurred since the beginning of May, when the economic reopening began.

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