But this is not the usual time. Even in Brazil’s richest and most populous state, few hospitals today have room for new patients.
When Dinia Martins was admitted to Firmino Hospital in early March, doctors intubated the 76-year-old, and told her family she needed to be moved to the ICU for more urgent treatment, says her 30-year-old granddaughter Rimapi.
She was not removed from the official, government-run list to replace this. “No vacancy appeared at the time she needed it and she died on Saturday,” Ravippi said. “We had the funeral on Sunday.”
The monstrous new wave of coronavirus that has claimed Firmino’s life is filling intensive care beds in Sઓo Paulo and across the country.
As of Sunday, the ICU business rate in 21 Brazilian states and the federal district was over 80%. Of those, 14 were on the verge of collapse with businesses above 90%.
In the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the ICU is so overcrowded that the largest public hospital treating the Covid-19 case in the state capital, Porto Alegre, said on Sunday it was forced to close its doors to new patients.
“The hospital’s ICU covid ward is already 132% occupied,” Das Clinicas of Porto Alegre Hospital said in a statement to hospital management.
There is a growing demand for oxygen and other basic necessities with packed wares. To the north, the state of Rhondonia is on 97.6..6% IQ business and the Attorney General’s Office has warned that the local oxygen supply could be exhausted in just two weeks.
Brazil’s health minister, Puezzo, who is himself under investigation to deal with the Manus crisis, recently estimated that 22 to 25 million doses would be available in March – a sharp drop from previous predictions that 46 million doses would be available this month. .
The federal government is negotiating a new vaccine deal, including a Russian-made Sputnik V. No purchase orders are included, but the shortage is still there. Officials in the coastal city of Rio de Janeiro have been forced to suspend the administration of the first dose. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes said the campaign would be resumed once more vaccines became available through the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
With the daily mortality of thousands of people, passing every hour means losing lives.
Dozens of Kovid-19 patients died at Akira Tada Hospital in a horrific five days this month, hospital officials said. All were on the waiting list to be transferred to the ICU.
The hospital’s emergency medicine physician, Dr. Maria Dollars da Silva has never seen anything like this. Pte, a 3-year-old from Brazil’s public health system, doesn’t usually break down to talk about her work, but in an interview with CNN she nodded and cried thinking about the damage.
“Psychologically, it affects us,” said Dr. Da Silva said. “As much as we want to be strong, our feelings come to the surface because of the pain.”
A local court recently ordered that at least 17 ICU beds be made available to those waiting to be relocated, drawing attention to the state’s Sao Paulo public figures, which claim that about 10% of the region’s ICU beds are still available. The state faces a ડો 6,000 penalty per day for not providing beds to those patients.
But dozens more Dr. Akira TADA patients are waiting to be moved for treatment. The 13th patient died Sunday morning.
As of Sunday night, none of the remaining patients had been transferred.
Reporters report from Rodrigo Pedroso, Marcia Riveradosa and CNN’s Matt Reverse, Sao Paulo. CNN Caitlin Hue reported from New York.
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