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RIO – The lack of beds to care for seriously ill patients with Covid in the city of Rio not only affects the public health network. According to Graccho Alvim, director of the Association of Private Hospitals of the State of Rio, the occupancy rate in ICU beds in the city of Rio is 98%. intensive:
– The ICU beds are practically all occupied. We have to think somehow of opening new beds, but alone, without the support of the government there are no conditions. In the metropolitan region there are still some beds available in Niterói and São Gonçalo, for example – he says.
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According to the director, some patients who have plans that do not find vacancies in the unit they seek are placed on the waiting list for a transfer:
– We also have a transfer between units and networks. Many times he arrives at a certain hospital, his plan does not have a vacancy in that unit and he needs to be transferred and queues, all this is complicated. The patient in the ICU spends a lot of time using the bed, which reduces rotation, he says.
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Alvim explains that the demand for assistance in private emergencies has also grown a lot in the last two weeks. This weekend, there were units that had an average wait time of four to five hours:
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– It became clear that it is not the summer that will kill the virus. We knew we would have a lot of cases, but the speed surprised us a bit. I do not know what a viable economic way to expand the offer of beds, but a skeletal idea in an association would be to combine the ease of hiring HR from private entities with the equipment of the public network – he says.
In São Paulo, a survey conducted by the Union of Hospitals, Clinics and Laboratories of the State of São Paulo (SindHosp) points to an increase of 29 percentage points in the occupancy rate of ICU beds by Covid-19 in the state. According to the data, the jump went from 55% to 84%. The occupancy rate of the rooms reached 63%.
