The increase in cases of coronavirus in Guayaquil motivates health professionals to request the rescheduling of other consultations.
The Hospitalization and Intensive Care areas are on the alert for the increase in patients with respiratory symptoms.
Even the outpatient spaces of medical centers and private clinics have been crowded by the presence of people seeking to be treated.
The Ministry of Health (MSP) reported that until yesterday 214 614 infected persons confirmed by PCR test were registered nationwide; and 14 059 deaths, between suspected and confirmed cases. Only in Guayaquil, 19.341 cases of coronavirus were reported in total.
In addition, in the Main Port there is little availability of beds in the Intensive Care Units (ICU), as in the Los Ceibos hospital and in the Kennedy clinic; other centers also report increased demand for patients.
With this scenario, health professionals to increase control in the care centers or to reprogram certain care to prevent patients with other pathologies from being infected.
For the epidemiologist Jhonny Real, it is essential that an infection control plan be applied in hospitals and health units so as not to allow the entry of all users, but in an orderly manner and depending on the service, taking into account biosecurity measures.
Meanwhile, the internist Alberto Campodónico explained that it is necessary to consider a reprogramming of certain services to prevent patients who do not have Covid-19 from being exposed to contaminated spaces.
“In an outpatient clinic, if patients arrive suspected of having coronavirus, but do not have it, they will be infected when exposed to viral load and other positive patients; that would be a problem and an irresponsibility of that external consultation ”, he specified.
This situation alerts even doctors who work particularly. For example, Dr. Daysy Avilés reorganized care at her medical center to protect the rest of the patients and her work team.
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