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The Municipal Administration reported that it is waiting for the authorization of the National Government to be able to take the security and public order measures that may be necessary, after declaring the night of this Friday, November 20, the health red alert in Manizales given the sustained increase in the occupancy of ICU beds, with a percentage higher than 80%.
Between November 17 and 20, the average number of units available for critical care of patients in Manizales was only 40, a situation that alerted the Ministries of Public Health and Government last Tuesday, the date on which it was registered for the first Once, in eight months of the pandemic in Manizales, the level of red alert due to the reduced number of ICU beds.
The Mayor of Manizales warned that the occupation is related to the peak of the pandemic. In addition, of the ascending curve of hospitalization in ICU for causes other than that of patients infected by COVID-19.
Faced with this situation, health authorities warned that the quality of care in all health services will be more rigorously controlled, to ensure that non-COVID patients receive the necessary diagnoses, treatments and medicines on time.
Therefore, the following sanitary measures were enacted: •
- Assess and intervene the causes of occupation of ICU and NICU units in each IPS of Manizales
- Activate 100% ICU expansion capacity in each IPS.
- Generate from the Ministry of Public Health, daily, concurrent audits to ICU and NICU • Monitor the availability of human talent in health for emergency services, COVID hospitalization and critical care units.
- Comply with the restriction imposed by the Caldas Territorial Health Directorate (DTSC) for the execution of elective surgeries that are required in ICUs, as well as other programmable activities that imply the use of general beds.
- Strengthen the first and second line of COVID care response schemes.
- Generate technical assistance actions to contribute to the rapid opening of new ICU units.
- Restrict receipt of cases from other departments.
- Convene and train groups of human talent in voluntary health in each IPS.
- Intensify home care from the Benefit Plan Administrator Entities (EAPB) for COVID patients.
- Strengthen home delivery of medicines for patients with chronic diseases.
- Refine the processes of care for patients with cardiovascular and metabolic risk, guaranteeing timely care in the consultation, paraclinics and medications.
- Activate the command of the municipal ESE ambulances from line 123.
Consider activation of phase 3.
Validate the departmental CRUE control model on morgue deposits. - Approve the CRUE control over the referral and counter-referral system.
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