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The health system in Meta and Orinoquia is on the verge of collapse due to the irresponsibility of citizens who have enjoyed the Christmas holidays without respecting biosecurity measures and of the fans of America who took to the streets to celebrate the star 15 of the Colombian soccer championship, according to the governor of Meta, Juan Guillermo Zuluaga.
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The Villavicencio Hospital, which is the main care center for five Orinoquia departments —Meta, Guaviare, Guainía, Vaupés and Vichada—, has an ED overcrowding of 164 percent, there is 90 percent occupancy by covid-19 in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 100 percent in the ICU by non-covid patients.
To this is added that the highly complex private clinics have an occupation of one hundred percent of the ICUs for covid-19 and 95 percent of the ICUs for other pathologies, according to the manager of the Meta Clinic and representative of the Association Orinoquia Health Institutions, Jorge Luis Cruz.
The Departmental Hospital of Granada has 70 percent occupancy in the ICU and there are only three beds available, with the aggravating circumstance that there are four people pending their evolution, revealed the governor of Meta, Juan Guillermo Zuluaga.
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On December 25, at 5 in the afternoon, when the curfew ended, the irresponsible people came out to celebrate like animals
Added to this is the lack of human resources due to the exhaustion of medical personnel
—Even some professionals have resigned— and the shortage of essential drugs. In Yopal, Casanare, local media pointed out that the Orinoquia Regional Hospital has also had a shortage of medicines.
The president pointed out that 723 people have died from covid-19 in the department, and in recent days the priest Carlos Alberto Ricardo Perdomo, director of the Pastoral Social and the Caminos de Esperanza Foundation, as well as the narrator of Coleo Ramón Guillermo Díaz, died.
“On December 25, at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, when the curfew ended, the irresponsible people went out to celebrate like animals, and on Sunday 27, after the triumph of America, fans of that soccer team went out to block roads in motorcycles and others dedicated themselves to stealing, “said Governor Zuluaga.
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Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, governor of Meta, stated that social indiscipline has been the trigger for the emergency.
Governorate of Meta
This, according to the president, caused the overcrowding of the hospital emergency room of 164 percent by intoxicated drunks, with fractures, as well as two people – an adult and a minor – burned by the use of gunpowder.
“Added to this is the exhaustion of the staff of doctors, nurses, orderlies, assistants who are tired and disillusioned with the behavior of unconscious people, and many have even given up“Zuluaga noted.
The director of the Meta Clinic says that, in addition to the worrying occupation of the intensive care units, there is a problem with the national shortage of essential drugs and specialized personnel in the care areas.
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Modifications in measurements
We have requested @MinInterior extend the curfew times for the entire Meta, like this:
-Thursday 31 from 10 pm to Saturday 02 at 6 am.
-Saturday 02 from 12 m. until Sunday 03 at 6 am.
– Sunday 3 from 12 m. until 12 pm the same day.
– Juan Guillermo Zuluaga (@JuanGZuluaga) December 29, 2020
Given these circumstances, the curfew that was scheduled to run from 10 p.m. on Thursday, December 31 to 6 a.m. will go until Saturday, January 2, and will resume at 12 p.m. on January 2 until on Sunday 3, at 6 in the morning, and from 12 noon to 12 at night the same day, according to a tweet published by the president of Meta.
Villavicencio governs the peak and ID for entering commercial and financial establishments until January 15.
In addition to this measure, surgeries that are not urgent will be postponed and universities in the region that have medical schools were asked to empower students who have finished their studies in order to empower them to help attend the emergency that is presenting itself.
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