Only 10 beds left in intensive care?

A few days ago, the National Disaster Management Operations Chamber “withdrew” from its daily reports, the figures relating to the occupancy rates of beds assigned to “Covid 19” patients, after it “used” in recent weeks to mention the number of unoccupied beds per day.

Yesterday Baalbek-Hermel Governor Bashir Khader announced that there are no longer empty ventilators in any of the district hospitals and that the number of empty beds in Corona departments in this vast governorate is less than 23, “although the number of injured in the governorate is lower than in other regions. “, Warning that” the situation is dangerous and our measures will not be enough if the public does not comply with the prevention measures. “
Prior to that, the director of the Rafic Hariri Government Hospital, Firas Al-Abyad, had announced that of the 200 intensive care beds designated for Corona patients, there were only 30 empty beds, noting that “we have reached an alarming level of capacity which reaches 90% in some hospitals ”.
Although Corona beds are not the same as designated intensive care beds for all other illnesses, “however, the onset of the flu season will increase the pressure on them, to reach a peak of absorptive capacity, and then we will enter the worst stage, “according to Al-Abyad.
This occurs while the Corona counter continues to fly high, since the Ministry of Health announced yesterday that 1,245 new injuries were registered (1,240 residents and five expatriates), 21 of them in the health sector (the number of injured working in the sector is 1,219 people), while 13 new deaths were registered, reaching 479 total victims.
As a natural result, the number of injured residents in intensive care wards rose to 190. And if Al-Abyad’s numbers are accurate, then this reality practically means that ten intensive care beds dedicated only to Corona patients in Lebanon still are vacant.

Supply Importers Association: No Shortage of Respirators

So what to do? Concerned people in the Ministry of Health, and behind them the Minister of Public Health in the interim government, Hamad Hassan, have a quasi-unified response, stating that “working to equip more hospitals and families and spending money from allocated donations from donors to face the epidemic “, while those who know realize that the” fixed “approach In the most prominent epidemiological scenario since the outbreak of the crisis, has been the” no plan “, through which measures are being implemented” partly “and very slowly. And until the adoption of the long-awaited vaccine at the end of this year or early next, as promised by the World Health Organization, there is a growing need to change that approach and adopt an emergency plan that begins by refuting the current logistical capacities available. to face the virus, and frankly with the residents of the magnitude of the alarming reality that the country has reached. Make it a means to achieve the desired commitment and inclusion.
In addition, the Union of Importers of Medical Supplies confirmed that there is no shortage of respirators, “they are available and available in companies and the Ministry of Health,” according to the president of the union, Salma Assi. If so, then the challenge is the need to “manage” its distribution to hospitals, of which a significant number are not yet equipped to receive Corona patients, despite the fact that it has been more than seven months since. the virus entered the country.
It seems “comically” to talk about the need to equip hospitals in this advanced stage that has reached epidemiological reality, since the number of daily wounded in Lebanon is still very high, which inevitably means an increase in the number of wounded whose condition requires hospitalization.

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