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The Federation of Public Health Associations (Fedesap) reported on Sunday night via Twitter the death of a 36-year-old patient in the San jose hospital for not existing mechanical fans available.
According to the agency, it is a person who suffered Covid-19. In addition, they called the Ministry of Health to find out where the fans are available in the capital.
️ ️A patient has just died # Covid_19 36 years in the Hospital San José for not having the hospital with available mechanical ventilators. That the government and @ministeriosalud Explain where the fans are available. #they are killing us
– FEDASAP (@Fedasap) May 11, 2020
The complaint comes when the increase in cases has been sustained in recent days. According to the Government, 75% of the intensive care beds You are busy in the country, while in the Metropolitan region this figure reaches 89% according to the survey of the Chilean Society of Intensive Medicine.
Given this, during the weekend 15 fans moved to the capital from the Bío Bío and La Araucanía regions. According to the latest balance, 70.5% of coronavirus cases are concentrated in the Metropolitan region.
The undersecretary Arturo Zúñiga this morning he referred to the complaint and indicated that the death did not occur due to lack of mechanical fans.
The authority said to have spoken with the director of the assistance center, Luis Escobar, who informed him of what happened last night in the compound.
“He informed me that the patient arrived in a serious situation, an attempt was made to resuscitate and unfortunately it was not possible. The patient passed away, obviously we deeply regret this, but it was not for lack of fans, that is the information that the director gave me, ”he told ADN.
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