According to health personnel sources, who request anonymity for fear of being fired, at the Zacamil hospital, an area of 15 patients with suspected COVID-19 was managed. to become a COVID hospital and serve 50 people in areas such as the cafeteria that were improvised to monitor these patients.
And there are approximately 19 coronavirus-positive patients.
This hospital is already contemplated as a hospital to care for patients with the new virus, although at first it was only used as a COVID-19 center, which is the place where the population only awaits confirmation of the test.
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The six sanatoriums that were classified as COVID-19 hospitals, for direct care of patients with the disease are: Amatepec, ISSS hospital in San Miguel, San Rafael, Plastic Surgery Tower of the National Children’s Hospital Benjamin Bloom, Planes de Renderos hospital from the ISSS, the necks had an Intensive Care Unit.
The Saldaña hospital was also included, which was the first hospital that treated these patients, but it did not have an Intensive Care Unit, only Intermediates.
The Medical College has said that it still does not know what hospital capacity the National Health System has to attend to the emergency by COVID-19.
Regarding the supplies delivered to those who are attending the pandemic, the infectologist Jorge Panameño expressed that the perception of the Medical College is that there is a deficit, and they know this from everything the health personnel denounce.
“We have insisted on the ministry, but we do not have information on the response mechanism that they are executing”, said.
The infectologist Iván Solano Leiva, expressed that another problem that is being faced during the emergency is the bad approach that the Government is making of the pandemic. The specialist’s argument is that asymptomatic COVID-19 positive patients should undergo home quarantine under medical surveillance.
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