Hospital fire: The machine shop becomes a refuge for patients view – 10/27/2020



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In the midst of despair after the fire that hit the Federal Hospital of Bonsucesso in the north of Rio on Tuesday morning (27), employees took patients on stretchers and beds to a machine shop, which is located in the street behind the medical unit. Health. Two patients with covid-19 died from the fire. The causes of the fire are investigated.

With the hospital parking lot full of patients on stretchers, the solution was to find another space to accommodate the patients. In a video made by an employee of the establishment, whom the Twitter It had access, it is possible to see dozens of stretchers with patients pushed by nurses, crossing the street and entering the workshop.

In severe health, the patients were even intubated. At least 30 people received care at the scene.

Secretary Carla de Souza, 35, told how it all happened.

“We were working normally and then the smoke started. Shortly after a person from the unit came to ask me if I could put the stretchers in the workshop. I didn’t think twice. There were 30 people here, there were many stretchers,” he reported.

It was crazy here and the doctors who treated in this situation were heroes. The staff stayed here for about an hour and a half. It was pretty desperate. They had respirators so of course we gave them the earplugs so they could wear

Carla de Souza, secretary of the mechanics workshop

He said that, even before patients with covid-19, he did not hesitate to receive them.

“There were very nervous people, so we tried to calm down. The family began to arrive. At that time we didn’t even think, because they had patients with covid, but there is no way to deny help. They are people, we are going to help, there is nothing to think about. We welcome everyone ”, he explained.

Among the patients who were brought to the workshop was the student’s uncle, Ketlyn Oliveira, 26. He said it was desperate until he managed to transfer his uncle, who has cancer.

“He has cancer and was thrown from hospital to hospital and finally managed to stop here. But now there was this fire, we were desperate. There was a rush with the patients, but fortunately they managed to take him to the Salgado Filho Hospital.

They had to bring it here first [oficina], to get out of the smoke. We were at home when we heard about the fire. Now it’s okay, it’s better. Did not inhale much smoke

Ketlyn Oliveira, niece of a patient with HFB

Early in the evening, firefighters recommended removing all patients from the hospital as a precaution. In total, the HFB has 289 patients, 143 have already left the unit and the forecast is that 146, including babies, will be transferred to different health units. The operation should last until the early hours.

After the fire, the HFB fire department transferred 162 patients from Building 1, where the fire occurred, to Building 2, and 76 were subsequently transferred to other hospitals.

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