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The São João Hospital, in Porto, will activate “in the next few hours” level III (penultimate) of the contingency plan for covid-19 after having felt the pressure of hospitalization of patients due to the pandemic.
In response to the need to increase the hospitalization areas and increase the flow in emergencies, the internal medicine service will be used for covid hospitalizations, this decision having a direct impact on the number of surgeries “, with the suspension of part of the activity . Scheduled surgery “, reveals the hospital in a statement.
Expresso had already announced that this would be the most likely scenario, even before the emergency meeting of the crisis office of the largest hospital in the north of the country, held this Tuesday afternoon.
Fernando Araújo, president of the São João board of directors and former Secretary of State for Health, admitted that professionals are “very concerned about the evolution of the situation, due to the strong growth in the number of cases.” In addition to the enormous pressure on the emergency services, we now have a decisive impact on hospitalization ”. Fernando Araújo explains that there are already some professionals infected or in quarantine, “which can pose complex problems in the system in the short term.”
The São João Hospital Center currently has 52 hospitalized infected patients, 11 in intensive care and two units dedicated to the pandemic that have already reached 100% of their capacity, the gynecology and the infectious diseases.
