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During the night of this Sunday, the Federation of Public Health Associations (Fedasap) reported the death of a patient with Covid-19 at Hospital San José, in the commune of Independencia, due to the lack of mechanical fans in the establishment, while the death of an infected older adult who, according to relatives, went through an extensive delay in her attention that even led her to more than 13 hours in an ambulance.
The accusations come in the midst of internal complaints that ensure that the hospital compound, belonging to the North Metropolitan Health Service, does not have sufficient medical personnel or infrastructure for the correct care of patients.
“A 36-year-old patient # Covid_19 has just died in the San José Hospital because the hospital does not have mechanical ventilators available”, Fedasap reported on its Twitter account at 22:56 hours on Sunday.
In the message, public sector health associations urged the Government, and especially the Ministry of Health, to “explain where the fans are available.”
️ ️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
Officials from the compound stated that this is a man who entered with respiratory complications and presented two cardiac arrests and, according to preliminary information, was not assisted with a mechanical respirator due to lack of parts of the apparatus.
According to the workers of the San José Hospital, now They are operating with 25 percent fewer staff, the ICU has collapsed, patients have been transferred, and anesthesia machines have already begun to be used as mechanical ventilators.
Officials note that the situation was triggered by the suspension of payments to doctors who work for a fee and who replace other officials, which would respond to an investigation carried out by the Comptroller about the payment of fees in the hospital system.
However, the director of the San José, Luis Escobar, denied the accusations and affirmed that it is impossible to function with a quarter less of the medical establishment.
THIRTEEN HOURS WITHIN AN AMBULANCE
“On Thursday we had to bring her by ambulance because she was very ill. She was from 11 in the morning until midnight of the same day above the ambulance and they just entered her there“This is how the son-in-law of a 60-year-old Covid-19 patient who also died tonight in San José.
As the man said to CooperativeLast Thursday, her mother-in-law, a patient at risk both for her age and for underlying diseases, began to present severe symptoms due to the virus.
“We did not have more information until half an hour ago, at 1:30 in the morning on Monday, and we were informed that he had died and had a positive Covid-19,” he said.
At the San José Hospital a 60-year-old woman died this morning by Covid-19, her relatives reported that she spent more than 13 hours in an ambulance, after 4 days without knowing anything about her, they informed them of her death. #CooperativaEnCasa
– Felipe Cofré (@_felipecofre) May 11, 2020
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