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RIO – The Rio judge accepted a request made by the Rio de Janeiro Prosecutor’s Office (MPRJ) and the Office of the Public Defender of the State (DPRJ), through a public civil action, and determined that the state and municipal governments put in All the beds of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) of the field hospitals of Riocentro, which are the responsibility of the municipality, and Maracanã, which are assigned by the state, to receive patients with Covid, within a maximum period of ten days 19.
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In the decision, Judge Angelica dos Santos Costa determined that the defendants unlock and put into operation, within a maximum period of ten days, all beds for the population in the current context of the new coronavirus pandemic, according to with the provisions of the contingency plans, and also that they be structured with all the material and human resources necessary for the complete and immediate operation, under the penalty of a daily fine – and personal, to Witzel and Crivella – of R $ 10,000 to each one of the accused.
The text also obliges the state and municipal government to place, in a shorter period of 48 hours, all the free beds that are inactive or blocked in public networks available to patients, “and that allow them to help safely and immediately to patients with Covid-19 until all beds designed in field hospitals are operational, also under penalty of fine, for the same amount “
Finally, the Justice determines that the municipality and the State prove, in a documentary way, within ten days, after the terms stipulated above have elapsed, compliance with the determined measures, under pain of new personal responsibility, clearly demonstrating the releasing the beds. in field hospitals, as well as in municipal and state networks.
He wanted to comment on the judicial decision, the state government, through the state health secretary, declared that “the Maracanã Campaign Hospital was opened on Saturday. The unit will initially operate with a capacity for 170 beds, 50 of them in the ICU The other 230 will be delivered to the population during the next week, in total, of the 400 beds, 160 will be in the ICU, however, SES emphasizes that the occupation of the beds should occur gradually, preserving health professionals already SES also clarifies that, to date, 969 new beds have been opened for the treatment of suspected or confirmed Covid patients throughout the state of Rio de Janeiro, of which 812 are in reference hospitals for the treatment of coronaviruses, of which 386 ICUs and 426 wards. In addition to these units, there are also 157 beds, 100 of which are for ICUs, for the treatment of Covid in isolated areas of other units and State “.
The city, in turn, clarified in a note that it has habitually opened exclusive beds for the treatment of Covid, and that today there are already 722.
“In May alone, 249 new beds were opened. Others will open soon. With the arrival of 300 respirators from China this week, it will be possible to open the field hospital beds.
It is also important to clarify that there are no inactive beds in the municipal health network. The beds that appear as “free” in the regulation platform are in specialized units, such as maternity, psychiatry and pediatrics, and that cannot be used for Covid-19, as the network continues to open its doors to patients with other needs “, concludes the municipality.
Bed management
According to the municipality, since May 1, 249 new beds have been opened for the treatment of patients with Covid-19, 100 of them in the Riocentro field hospital. However, the city says there are 66 hospitalized in hospital beds and 20 in ICU beds. Delayed nine days, the Maracanã state field hospital opened this Saturday, with only 170 of the 400 beds available.
In all municipal networks, there are 623 hospitalized with the new coronavirus, 158 in the ICU. In occupied beds, the city says there is a rotation of vacancies due to discharge and deaths, in addition to transfers to ICU beds that return to Covid wards and used when the patient’s condition worsens.
The Municipal Ministry of Health reported that these beds that appear as “free” in the regulatory platform are in specialized units, such as maternity, psychiatry and pediatrics, and that they cannot be used for Covid-19, since the network continues with the doors open for patients with other needs.
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Transfer queue
In all the public hospitals of the city of Rio, and not only in the units of the municipal network, there are 1,020 people in the regulatory queue, awaiting transfer to dedicated beds for Covid-19, 379 of which are for beds. in ICU. Patients can be regulated for admission to any of the different networks, be they federal, state or municipal.
SUS occupancy rate
Throughout the SUS network in the city of Rio, which includes beds from municipal, state and federal units, there are 1,408 hospitalized patients with suspected Covid, of whom 417 are in the ICU.
The ICU bed occupancy rate for Covid-19 in the SUS network in the municipality is 94%. The occupancy rate in nursing beds for patients with suspected Covid is 90%, also in the municipality.
