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The department of Tolima goes through one of the most difficult moments in these 8 months of health emergency since the percentage of beds in Intensive Care Units (ICU) exceeded 70 percent due to covid-19, but the most serious thing is that in the clinical centers of the city of Ibagué the occupancy is above 80 percent, which set off the alarms in the authorities.
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Due to this high increase in infections, the governor, Ricardo Orozco Valero, decreed the hospital red alert and things have become so complicated that, between Saturday and Sunday the department registered 1,200 cases with more than 30 people dead. Thus, the total number of infections rose to 20,346 of which 14,500 are in Ibagué.
The Secretary of Health of Tolima, Jorge Bolívar, pointed out that the most worrying thing is that Ibagué has a percentage of occupancy of ICU beds above 80 percent.
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“The declaration of red alert brings with it the suspension of cosmetic surgeries and postponement of outpatient procedures but surgeons will decide whether or not an intervention can be postponed“Said Bolívar and added that in this way beds and medical personnel are freed up to be used for covid care.
With the alert, which was authorized by the national government, the Ministry of Health takes control of the Intensive Care Units and, at the same time, decides where patients are referred, but compliance with these measures is mandatory for the IPS and the EPS.
The mayor of Ibagué, Andrés Fabián Hurtado, assured that in this city for every 100 people who are tested, 27 of them test positive and the national measure is 23.
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“We decreed the curfew and the dry law to control disorder, irresponsibility and social indiscipline in some citizens,” said the president.
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