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The president of the Chilean Society of Intensive Medicine (Sochimi), doctor Tomás Regueira, assured that the increase in cases due to COVID-19 pandemic in Chile It is not being progressive, as everyone expected, but rather “explosive”.
Dr. Regueira indicated that, since the virus is transmitted by contact“If there is no social distancing, of course the virus increases its transmissibility.” At this point, he warned that “What we are seeing now is a consequence of the increase in social contact in recent weeks.”
Meanwhile, he stated that they hope that “the recently decreed quarantine measures have effect probably only in seven or 10 days. “
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“We all believed that there was an accumulation of progressive cases, but clearly we were wrong and now we have a more explosive increase in cases how progressive, ”said the specialist.
He also noted that COVID-19 is a disease “Complex and serious” and called people to become aware. “Let’s not wait for a loved one to have the disease”Regueira said.
Regarding Intensive Care Units (ICU), the doctor stated that “most of the UCI are reaching the top of their capacities ”. According to him, what needs to be done is to increase more spaces in health services, enable pavilions and new units.
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Still, “people to take care of those units are needed.” Likewise, he clarified that when a patient is in the ICU, “all his vital functions are replaced by health personnel ”. He exemplified this point with the work done by kinesiologists, nurses, paramedics, technicians, and doctors from different specialties to keep the person in critical condition alive.
“We have worked with the Ministry of Health (Minsal) to train people, we have trained more than a thousand people, we have tried to deliver the skills, because the pandemic devastated New York, Italy and we are chilito ”, ratified the specialist.
Finally, he said that “this is an exceptional situation and you have to work with the resources that there are ”.
Currently, according to the latest Minsal report, in Chile there are 30,063 cases and 323 deaths due to COVID-19.
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