With more than 10,000 Covid-19 boxes, Rio has 3,000 empty beds in the ICU



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Sandro Pereira / Estadão ContentsThe spaces are technically blocked due to a lack of equipment, health professionals, and some adjustments and work necessary to prepare them.

A mapping carried out in the federal, state and municipal health networks of the Rio de Janeiro indicated that it has approximately three thousand empty beds in the state, which could be used by patients in the Covid-19 and other diseases

The beds are technically locked due to a lack of equipment, healthcare professionals, and some adjustments and work necessary to prepare them. Recently, the Office of the Federal Prosecutor (MPF) and the Office of the Public Defender have obtained some victories to request the reopening of spaces.

This Friday (1), for example, the 2nd Civil Chamber of the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro ordered the release within four days of at least 138 intensive care beds for severe acute respiratory syndrome that have been prevented or transformed into common beds in the State Regulatory System (Sisreg).

In addition, the federal network, which has so far only provided 18 beds, needs to open 170, a term that has already expired, but has not been met. Rio has six federal hospitals. The state is near a collapse of the health system, with more than 10,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 921 deaths by Friday.

* With information from the journalist Rodrigo Viga



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