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The Undersecretary of Healthcare Networks, Alberto Dougnacannounced the issuance of a decree that suspend all elective surgeries, both in the public and private systems, in order to alleviate the situation of the integrated network at this critical moment of Covid-19.
However, the regions of Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Atacama, Aysén and Magallanes will remain exempt from this measure: “Basically the most extreme regions are released, where the pandemic is a little less critical,” the authority explained.
I also know excludes procedures whose delay implies a risk to health of people, as well as those in which the fulfillment of GES guarantees governs and pediatric patient interventions.
“There is a higher percentage of surgery that occupies precisely critical beds or beds in intermediate care units, which are the ones that allow us to move patients from the greatest complexity to the least complexity,” explained Dougnac.
The decree of the Ministry of Health, which will be published today Tuesday, It will come into effect this Friday, March 19 and will last for 30 days., that is, until April 18.
Undersecretary Dougnac clarifies that today will be published decree suspending elective surgeries in most of the country. @Cooperative pic.twitter.com/1Y6M2iPIk3
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RECONVERSION MAY NOT BE ENOUGH
To the date, 2,099 Covid patients are hospitalized in intensive care unitsTherefore, the Minsal continues its efforts in parallel to convert beds and thus cope with the regrowth.
In fact, the announcement is given less than a week after the expiration of another decree, which ordered all hospitals and clinics reopen the same number of beds as in the first peak of the pandemic, that is, almost 3,300 in total, and to date, 3,031 have been enabled on the network.
In this regard, the medical director of the Indisa Clinic, Rodrigo Castillo, stressed that during the first wave, its enclosure “more than tripled the beds, that meant reaching 102 ICU beds, and today with the challenge that the decree gave us, we’re just a few days away from probably being very close to the goal. We will probably reach 100 ICU beds. “
However, “we believe that this will not be enough; given the numbers we are experiencing, there is a risk in the next week that demand will be even higher. “
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