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The state of Amazonas has seven ICU beds for every 100,000 inhabitants, a quarter of the rate in the Federal District, for example. In the coronavirus pandemic, the result of this is the death of critically ill patients who could have survived if they had access to a ventilator.
At the door of the Platão Araújo State Hospital, despair. Luziane lost her husband, Leandro Jorge Lima, 44 years old. Officially, he died of acute respiratory failure. The test for Covid-19 is not ready yet.
The family reports that there was no respirator available at the hospital. During the three days of hospitalization, the doctors improvised a respirator with a plastic bag. “He suffered a lot, too much. He couldn’t breathe. Then they keep saying that all hospitals are equipped, everything is a lie. If you talk to people I saw where we were, who are carrying the body of the family, who were there. So where is this thing? ”
Previously, in the same hospital, Sérgio cried a lot for the loss of his father, Antônio, 66. I had Covid-19. He waited eight days for a respirator, but was only transferred to the ICU on Thursday and used the equipment for just 50 minutes. Seu Antônio had cardiac arrest and could not resist.
“I was very happy about the intubation, my father. He was very happy. The wish he always had was to have a respirator, he had hope. A wish that he always made, from the beginning. “I want a respirator, I want a respirator” and we couldn’t find it. We fight, we can’t find it. When he found it, it was at the end of his life. Very sad, ”says Sérgio Monteiro, sales consultant.
Doctors report that there are no respirators to care for all patients and that they are often forced to choose who will have access to the equipment.
The Amazonas government increased the structure and number of beds in the state’s four hospitals, one referral and three support hospitals, which serve patients with Covid-19. But the ICU bed occupancy rate is high: 89%. And the overcrowding continues.
The latest published figures show 10,099 confirmed cases and 806 deaths. The chaos in health is reflected in the funeral system, which has collective burials in mass graves.
The management of the Platão Araújo Hospital indicated that the patient Antônio Teles da Gama received all the care consistent with the evolution of his state of health. The hospital did not comment on the case of Leandro Jorge Lima, who was photographed with the makeshift respirator with a plastic bag.
