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The alert was launched by the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, this Tuesday, through a statement in which it warns that the number of coronavirus infections went from one month to another from 172 to 1,336, with 14 deaths.
In addition, the control body said that in San Andrés there are 56 cases of dengue, “twice as many as those identified the previous year.”
But what worries the Public Ministry most, and this is reflected in its report, is that the department only has 13 ICU beds, nine of them destined for the care of infected patients. The other four, he said, are to treat other types of illnesses.
The Attorney General’s Office reported that an intensive care area was built in the hospital, with space for 17 beds, but that six months after the health emergency “they have not been enabled due to the lack of an additional oxygen plant.”
And it adds an even more worrying fact, and that is that with the reopening of commercial flights and the entry of tourists “it could saturate the installed capacity of intensive care units”, which up to now has a little more than 50% occupation. This, because the Minsalud confirmed that it is not necessary to take the COVID-19 test to travel to the island.
For the control body, “it is urgent that an immediate intervention be achieved to the department, in order to avoid that the number of infected continues to increase and that there are more fatalities”, because with the report of this Tuesday that the Ministry of Health confirmed cases increased to 1,424.
This complicated health situation was warned by the doctor from San Andres, Edna Rueda Abrahams, who in an opinion column in El Isleño, on September 26, said that health personnel “are exhausted”, that there are disabled workers and that this doubles the tasks of those coping with COVID-19.
“The specialists, many of them without pay for six months, assume double roles to be able to alleviate a bit what happens, while some buy their supplies to protect themselves and their families”, denounced Rueda, adding that while this is happening the authorities throw responsibilities.
In this regard, and as if this were not enough, journalists from Caracol Radio’s ‘La Luciérnaga’ reported that there is no morgue on the island, “there is no space for more corpses in the cemetery, there is no crematorium and they are taking the infected with COVID-19 because there are not enough beds or specialists ”.
That is why the Attorney General’s Office called on the Ministry of Health and the government of San Andrés, so that in the next three days “they present an intervention plan” that allows solving these health care problems.
Thus, the people of San Andres are concerned about this panorama of infections, while Governor Everth Hawkins continues to fight in the middle of the investigation process opened by the prosecutor Francisco Barbosa, after his questioned family trip to the island in full quarantine.
For now, according to Caracol News, Governor Hawkins has been given house arrest.
The Governor of San Andrés @EVERTHHAWKINS he is free because his defense filed an appeal #CodeCaracol pic.twitter.com/o9YFRMJcly
– Camila Zuluaga (@ZuluagaCamila) September 22, 2020
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