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According to Claudia López, requests to the Regulatory Center for Urgencies and Emergencies (CRUE) were also reduced and 1,812 beds in intensive care units are currently in use by patients with complications from Covid-19.
The president also highlighted that in the last hours the capacity of ICUs assigned to patients with the virus was increased, and the total is now 1953 beds of this type.
The report was released by López in the last hours, when he highlighted the behavior of citizens in most areas in Bogotá, during this weekend when a new total and strict confinement is carried out.
Despite the numbers delivered by the mayor, the city remains on red alert for the current pandemic and in the last hours it became known that from Bogotá they are sending patients suffering from the disease to other cities, especially Cartagena and Barranquilla.
This was announced by the Secretary of Health of Barranquilla, Humberto Mendoza, this Saturday, when reported that 4 patients with COVID-19 were received from the capital to that hospital network.
“This is done through the referencing between the EPS themselves at the national level. Who authorized the transfer is the provider of the service here, and the infected are being treated, ”Mendoza said, quoted by Caracol Radio.
Despite the help they provide to patients from other cities, the capital of the Atlantic also has a high level of ICU occupancy for Covid-19. It only has 5% available.
Controversy over ICU bed occupancy in Bogotá
This week that ends, a report from the Bogotá Ombudsman generated an alert in which it was reported that the ICUs for Covid-19 had reached 100% occupancy and that the emergency was much greater in the city.
However, Claudia López herself said in public that said report had false information and that there is still room in ICUs to care for patients suffering from the disease. On the sides of the District, the Secretary of Government, Luis Ernesto Gómez, also told Pulzo that the alert from the Personería was due to a mistake.
This is Gómez’s interview with Pulzo:
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