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According to the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, Chileans “believe that they are in the worst of all worlds” and above all they have a terrible assessment of the efforts that the government has made so far in the face of the pandemic.
In conversation with the program “Here We Are All We Are” of Channel 13, Paris highlighted that Chile is “the fourth country in credibility of the figures, the first in Latin America in PCR testing and the first in the world in vaccination speed.”
According to the minister, “Chileans do not believe that. They believe that they are in the worst of worlds, that everything must be destroyed, that everything must be criticized, that everything is terrible. They laugh at me. They have said words that I do not want to repeat because my family sees that and they suffer; that another colleague says such extraordinarily bad things about one when we are making all the effort “.
Paris continues in the tone of a victim, while concern grows about the evolution of the pandemic and the impact that the virus has had on the health care network. The number of Covid-19 patients in Intensive Care Units (ICU) is adding up and going and, therefore, the high levels of occupancy of critical beds have set off alarms. The Minsal chief, asked if the so-called “last bed dilemma” had been reached, said “we are never going to get to that point.”
Although the Minister of Health indicated that interventions had already begun for patients on the waiting list, he explained that with the rebound in cases it was necessary to “try to remove these patients little by little and start receiving more patients with Covid. At this moment, 70% of the patients are Covid, but the statistics show the occupancy of beds over 90 or 95% “.
“At the moment, in ICUs what we still have is 30% (today a little less, 29%) of patients with other pathologies, something that did not happen in the first wave, (when) the entire ICU was occupied by Covid patients, “explained Paris, assuring that” we have converted lots of critical beds and today we have many more beds than we had in the first wave. “
Asked again about the issue, the Secretary of State finally said that it is expected to reach a total of 4 thousand critical beds enabled during the next week. “We have to arrive, at least, next week to have 4 thousand beds. If necessary, we will use the surgical wards again, we will use the emergency room again, we will once again transform some intensive pediatric units into adults,” he concluded.
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