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Over the past 24 hours, 30 designated Corona patient intensive care beds have been occupied, bringing the number of occupied beds to 451 from 475, meaning that only 24 beds remain empty.
The high occupancy rate is due to the significant upward path taken by the daily number of victims. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health announced that 2,878 injuries were registered (22 of them imported), while 13 deaths were registered, bringing the total number of victims to 1,443.
It is true that the high record of injuries is due to the high percentage of exams (21,700 exams) due to the rush to perform laboratory analysis to obtain a “check” that allows to stay awake in clubs and centers during the holidays. However, it is considered an indication of the extent of the spread of the epidemic, which requires raising the level of preparedness. To curb the casualty count, which will increase dramatically from January 10, as confirmed two days ago by the Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan.
The concern raised by these data was reflected in the statement issued yesterday by the Lebanese Union of Nurses, in which it warned about “the consequences of recklessness, indolence and chaos, whose consequences and repercussions could be very dangerous in the stage forthcoming ”, indicating that the epidemiological situation“ is ongoing and active. There is no justification for manipulating or sacrificing health to spend the holidays.
Although the union indicated that the hospital beds are about to reach their maximum capacity, it clarified that the rush to carry out PCR tests to pass the festive period “does not constitute any protection against infection, but increases the risk because some of infected people who are a source of infection for others can sometimes have negative results. Whether the test was done five or seven days before contracting the virus. And he called on “all citizens to exercise the utmost caution and assume responsibility, since it is a public responsibility related to all of society, and sacrifice some customs and occasions to reach safety because health cannot be compensated” .
This was met with a “shout” launched by the head of the Lebanese Doctors Union in Beirut, Professor Sharaf Abu Sharaf, at a press conference yesterday, calling for the closure of clubs and discos on New Year’s Eve. Abu Sharaf noted the high number of injuries to doctors, as ten doctors have so far died from the virus, while 15 doctors remain in intensive care and more than 200 are in home quarantine and “the rope in the jars.” And he added: “If this number continues to increase, there will be no more specialist doctors to attend to patients, no places or beds in hospitals. The wounded will go to the hospital door and will not find a bed or someone to receive them in the departments intensive care (…) “.
