Medellín is looking for professionals with experience in ICU to lower the pressure of covid-19

The covid-19 does not give truce in Medellín, a city that on the afternoon of this Saturday, April 3 was obliged to extreme restrictive measures due to the increase in the number of cases of covid-19 and the levels of occupancy of beds in intensive care units, ICU.

As the mayor of the city, Daniel Quintero Calle, published through his Twitter account, the capital of Antioquia closed last Friday, April 2, with an ICU occupancy of 95 percent, Therefore, from early this morning work is being done to open 35 additional beds to reduce the pressure on the health system. However, he warned that “it will be necessary to open more beds and take new restrictive measures together with the Government.”

This process, however, has been hampered by the absence of professionals who can take care of those who come to occupy these positions in intensive care units. As the president tweeted at noon, what is required is the presence of 11 intensivists, from any part of the countryThat they are willing to move to what is, at the moment, the region with the most daily infections in the country: today 2,353 were registered throughout Antioquia.

Additionally, Quintero added, Medellín is in need of “certified personnel with experience in intensive care: 10 General Practitioners, 20 Nurses, 16 Respiratory Therapists and 64 Nursing Assistants ”. Those interested in all these positions, he said, can write certifying their experience in ICU to [email protected], email that corresponds to the Hospital Infantil Concejo de Medellín.

At the same time, the president reported that, as part of the extra measures adopted due to the health crisis that the region is going through “Medellín and Antioquia have asked the Ministry of Education to suspend the presence of classes for the next two weeks”. That, taking into account that according to Quintero, in the next few days it is expected to vaccinate all the teachers of the ‘city of eternal spring’.

Meanwhile, it was decided that both that city as Barbosa, Copacabana, Girardota, Bello, Envigado, Itagüí, Sabaneta, La Estrella, Caldas, El Carmen de Viboral, El Retiro, Santuario, Guarne, La Ceja, Marinilla, La Unión, Rionegro and San Vicente; They will have a new season of restrictions during the week of Easter: from this Monday, March 5, until Friday, March 9, there will be a curfew every day from 6:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. the next day. The dry law is also maintained at those same times.

It goes without saying that, according to yesterday’s report, Medellín has accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic a total of 215,035 positive cases of covid-19, of which 206,362, or 96 percent, are reported as recovered, while 3,847 resulted in deaths. Another 4,826 infections are currently active.

Regarding the immunization process, the latest report from the Mayor’s Office indicates that, until this April 2, the city has received 64,260 vaccines from Pfizer for all health personnel who serve on the front line against covid-19, of which 53,812 have been applied, which is equivalent to an execution of 83.7 percent; and 125,677 doses of Sinovac, focused mainly on stage 2. Of these, 104,923 vaccines have already been applied, for an execution of 83.5 percent.

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