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The number of hospitalized patients with Covid-19 has risen to 1,700, according to HSE CEO Paul Reid.
The healthcare system is under increasing pressure in the third wave as the number of people hospitalized with the disease approaches double the number hospitalized during the first wave last spring.
Reid said there were 143 people in hospital intensive care units, which remains below the 155 people who were in ICUs at the peak of the first wave, but the numbers have risen rapidly.
The number of Covid-19 patients in the ICU is expected to surpass that peak as early as Tuesday. About half of these patients use ventilators.
Authorities said Monday night that with the number of cases stabilizing at around 6,000 a day, hospitalizations will peak at 2,200 to 2,500 people in 10 to 14 days, with 200 to 400 people in the ICU.
The 1,700 people in the hospital now equals almost double the amount with Covid-19 in the hospital a week ago, as the surge in infections since Christmas has led to more hospitalizations.
There were 80 additional hospital admissions since 8 p.m. Monday when there were 1,620 patients in the hospital with the virus according to Reid’s figure.
“Nobody wants more people to get sick with Covid-19. 1,700 patients who are now in the hospital and 143 in the ICU would switch with any of us, ”the HSE chief said in a tweet Tuesday morning.
“Everyone’s big request is to stay home and help bring our hospitals and nursing homes back to safer levels. Our healthcare teams ask us exactly this. “
HSE’s figures for its hospital operations Monday night show that there were 13 hospitals in different parts of the country that did not have critical care beds available.
Three hospitals had no general hospital beds available and 13 other hospitals each had a single-digit number of general hospital beds available.
There were 143 seriously ill Covid-19 patients in the hospital on Monday night, 74 of whom were on ventilators.
St James’s Hospital in Dublin had the highest number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care with 14 in ICU, followed by Mater and University Hospital Limerick with 11 each, and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and Galway University Hospitals with 10 each.
Thousands of health service personnel are scheduled to be reassigned and an agreement will be launched this week that will allow the use of the capacity of private hospitals to cope with the unprecedented increase in Covid-19 cases.
Despite signs that the number of cases has stabilized, the health service is expected to come under intense pressure over the next week or two as hospitalizations and ICU admissions rise even further sooner. that the situation begins to improve.
Another eight deaths and 4,929 Covid-19 cases were reported on Monday, bringing the total number of cases past the 150,000 mark just eight days after the 100,000 case mark was surpassed.
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