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The bed occupancy rate of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Belo Horizonte is near the capacity limit, the Municipal Health Department reported on Wednesday (22). According to the most recent information available in the folder, last Sunday (19), the total occupation, for all illnesses, was 96%.
Since Monday (20), the G1 began to reveal the daily situation of occupying the ICU infirmary and beds in Minas Gerais and in the capital of Minas Gerais.
Until then, the city council had only made available the occupancy rate of specific beds to serve suspected or confirmed patients by Covid-19, which, at 19, was 39%.
The report of G1 In recent days, he had been requesting “data on general ICU occupancy and clinical beds.” The response sent by the press office of the secretariat on Wednesday afternoon (22) reads as follows:
“Of the total number of beds, the occupancy rate in the capital is 53% for nursing, and the ICU occupancy rate is 96%.”
See the reproduction of the email sent by the Municipal Department of Health:
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The email from the BH Municipal Health Department says that, in the case of total beds, the ICU occupation is 96%. – Photo: Playback
However, the Municipal Health Secretariat did not report the total number of ICU and nursing beds available in the city.
Shortly after informing the G1 Verbatim that, “in total beds,” “the ICU occupancy rate is 96%,” the folder says that ICU beds that are almost fully occupied do not include Covid-19 patients.
They would be beds “for the general care of the population in relation to the aggravating factors of other diseases such as chronic diseases”.
The secretariat therefore continued to report the total number of beds in the capital, which has been questioned by the report since last week.
Regarding 96% occupancy in ICU beds in the capital, the folder says that “the demand for ICU beds in the capital shows high occupancy in their routine.”
Of the 11,622 SUS clinical beds available in the state, the occupation is, this Wednesday (22), 56%, according to the State Department of Health, but in the case of Covid-19, this rate is 3%. There are 367 people hospitalized with suspicion or confirmation of the disease.
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ICU bed in Barbacena. – Photo: Priscila Rezende / SES-MG
In relation to ICU beds, according to SES, there are 2,013, in addition to 50 beds from the Minas Gerais Hospital Foundation. The occupancy rate is 52% for different cases. The occupancy rate for Covid-19 or suspected disease is 3%. There are 76 patients hospitalized in this type of structure.
