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After announcing the installation of refrigerated containers, the city of Manaus reported, this Tuesday (21), that it is making mass graves, called by the trench organ, to bury the victims of the new coronavirus in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida public cemetery, in the Tarumã neighborhood, West Zone of the capital. As of Monday (20), Manaus had recorded 156 deaths from Covid-19. In the state, the number of confirmed cases reached 2,160, with 182 deaths in total.
The rapid increase in Covid-19 deaths in the state has meant that dozens of graves have been opened in the same cemetery since last Friday (17). According to information from the city council, since March, there has been an increase of approximately 50% in demand. Notaries in the capital also extended the guard regime to meet the high demand for death registration.
On Tuesday (20), the City of Manaus reports, through a note, that due to the large increase in the number of burials made in the cemetery, the Municipal Secretary of Urban Cleaning (Semulsp) adopted the trench system to carry out the burial. of the victims of Covid-19.
“The methodology, already used in other countries, preserves the identity of the bodies and family ties, with the distance between the coffins and the identification of the graves. The measure was necessary to satisfy the demand for burials in the capital,” he says. the note .
This Monday (20), Semulsp had already informed the G1 who had to install refrigerated containers in the cemetery to store coffins awaiting burial. Videos circulating on social media show rows of funeral cars waiting to bury bodies.
The measure aims to make the SOS funeral service more agile, which today is the only one available free of charge to the most vulnerable population, to carry out the burial of people who cannot pay the burial costs.
“The cameras are being used to store coffins, while family members await the moment of burial, without the need for the SOS Funeral vehicle to await their release, and may return to base for a new call,” notes the Semulsp’s note.
The Amazon government also installed refrigerated containers in hospital units in Manaus, after the repercussion of a video showing suspected bodies of Covid-19 located inside the João Lúcio Hospital, East Side, along with hospitalized patients. See:
Video shows bodies of suspected Covid-19 patients along with hospitalized in the morning
Patients die waiting for bed
Hospitalized for four days in the public health system of Amazonas, Ms. Maria das Graças, 63, died with suspicion of Covid-19 this Monday (20). He hoped that a transfer to the hospital would have access to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), but he died before succeeding. The family reported medical negligence in the case.
The daughter, in an interview with Amazon Network, commenting on the case, denounced negligence on the part of doctors and nurses. “It was a harrowing wait from start to finish,” he said.
The State Health Secretariat (Susam) stated that the patient would be transferred from the São Raimundo SPA, in Manaus, to the Getúlio Vargas University Hospital, also in the capital. The transfer never happened, and the case worsened.
The public health system in Amazonas suffers an imminent collapse and already has 91% of ICU beds occupied. As of Monday, according to the government, among the confirmed and suspected cases of Covid-19, there are 815 patients admitted to the state.
According to the state, Amazonas currently has 682 respirators registered in the National Registry of Health Facilities (CNES). Of this number, 232 are dedicated to the care of patients with Covid-19, with 66% available for the pandemic.
After the complaints, the Amazonas State Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation and demands responses from the government on the purchase of 28 lung ventilators for the public health network for the amount of R $ 2 million and 970 thousand. The MPC reported that the average cost was R $ 106,200 per unit.
According to the document of the Office of the Attorney General of Accounts, signed by João Barroso de Souza, the Federal Government has been buying the same respirators at the unit price of R $ 57,300. The attorney general reports that the value is almost half the price of the equipment Amazon bought.
“I am afraid of dying and losing my daughter”
At the Balbina Mestrinho maternity hospital in Manaus, a 27-year-old housewife who is isolated with symptoms of the new coronavirus denounces the lack of necessary care during pregnancy. She is afraid of losing her life and her daughter.
This Tuesday morning (21), in an interview with G1, housewife Suelen Martins, six months pregnant, said that six days ago she was sick at home. He had a high fever and was taking medication, but other symptoms appeared. She then went to the maternity ward, in the South Zone of Manaus, where she has been hospitalized since then.
“Pink” room where pregnant women are hospitalized in Manaus. – Photo: Personal file
She is isolated and breathing with the help of a device inside a “pink room”, which are separate areas in the public network to serve patients with Covid-19. There are two other pregnant women at the scene.
“Five days ago I was home with a fever, I took medicine and the fever did not disappear. I started to vomit and cough. I came to the maternity hospital, they put me in this pink room, I breathe with the help of oxygen because I was already lacking a lot. At first, the doctor treated me, but then they abandoned me, “he said.
With various symptoms, the woman said that she came to perform the test for the new coronavirus, but until this Tuesday (21), she had not received any confirmation of maternity. There, she suffers from a lack of structure, she says.
“From the day I entered, I don’t even know the results of the exam, they did the x-ray and they didn’t. They don’t say what I have. I’m afraid of losing my life, my daughter.” fear of the worst that happens inside. ”
In a note, the management of Maternidade Balbina Mestrinho reported that “all patients with respiratory symptoms and seeking maternity are received and treated in an exclusive room, separate from other patients, according to the flow established for the occasion.”
“They all receive a medical follow-up, with a daily evaluation and an appropriate medical prescription for each case. None of the patients has severe symptoms, but they are receiving all the attention paid to the suspected cases of covid-19,” says the note.
According to the latest balance published by the Health Surveillance Foundation (FVS-AM), Amazonas represents 2,160 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. Three more deaths from the disease were also confirmed, totaling 185 deaths.
Also according to this Monday’s bulletin (20), 1,165 people diagnosed with Covid-19 are in social isolation or at home, which corresponds to 53.94% of confirmed cases in Amazonas. From Sunday (19) to Monday, 103 more people recovered from the disease and are out of the virus transmission period, now a total of 635 recovered.
Coronavirus cases in the Amazon
The first case was registered on March 13 and the first death on 24
Source: FVS-AM
