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RIO – The collapse in the public health system due to the high number of cases in Covid-19 already makes patients face queues: there are 1,563 people from 11 states in this situation, according to a survey conducted by GLOBO in the departments state health agencies. this Friday. In addition, the occupancy rate in public intensive care units exceeds 80% in 17 states and the Federal District.
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The longest waiting list for an ICU bed is in Paraná, where 336 people are waiting for a place and 811 patients are waiting for beds overall. Also in the Southern Region, which has been hard hit by the high number of pandemic cases, Rio Grande do Sul has exceeded its maximum capacity and records 101% occupancy of intensive care beds, with 145 patients awaiting bed.
The states of Amazonas, Bahia, Federal District, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia and Santa Catarina also have lines for UCI. And this figure tends to be even higher, as 12 states did not respond to the report’s requests, including Ceará, which has a high rate of 93.4% of ICU beds occupied by Covid-19.
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They also did not specify whether there are lines for beds in their hospitals in the states of Tocantins, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Piauí, Pernambuco, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, Amapá, Alagoas and Acre. They currently work without a waiting list in Sergipe, Roraima, Paraíba, Pará and Espírito Santo.
In Bahia the situation has been getting worse in recent days. With an occupation of 87% of the ICUs, the state already registers a queue of 328 patients.
Maranhão, meanwhile, has 65.7% of occupied ICUs, a lower rate than other federal units, but there are still 15 patients waiting for a place. According to the Ministry of Health, this is due to the fact that, in some municipalities, the state network has 100% occupancy of clinical beds and ICUs, case, for example, of Imperatriz, the second largest in the state.
The secretary stressed that she has been carrying out daily transfers of patients to the capital São Luís and other regions through the Air ICU, and that a 60-bed field hospital will open next week.
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The state of Goiás, which has 96.5% of its ICU beds occupied, also has a long waiting list for its ICUs: 236 patients. None of them are unattended, according to a note from the Health Department, “because they receive assistance in beds that are not exclusive for coronavirus in the units of origin of the order until they are transferred to hospitals dedicated to confirmed cases of Covid. -19 “.
The state of São Paulo broke its ICU bed occupancy record on Friday by registering a rate of 78.5%. The value exceeds the previous record of 77.4%, notified the previous day.
