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To what CM Found, the oxygen network of the Amadora-Sintra Hospital, in Amadora, went into overload this Tuesday night, due to the high number of cases of hospitalization in wards and intensive care motivated by the increase in Covid-19 cases registered in last days in Portugal.
Due to this overload, patients are already being transferred from this health unit to others in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo areas. According to the CM together with a hospital source, at least 48 patients are transferred to other health units in Lisbon this afternoon.
It is an overload in the pipes that supply oxygen to patients, guaranteed the source of the hospital to CM that there is no lack of oxygen in Amadora-Sintra and that none of the patients is at risk of death from the situation.
So far, there were 333 patients with Covid-19 admitted to the infirmary of this hospital and 30 in intensive care, and in the Amadora-Sintra hospital, the maximum expected in the plan was 120 infected with the new coronavirus.
“We are making a superhuman effort, this number of patients is not sustainable. We have reached the limit,” says a source to CM.
Of those transferred, the CM He knows that several patients are under non-invasive ventilation and will go to the Santa Maria Hospital, others are stable and will be received at the Hospital das Forças Armadas and others at the Cidade Universitária field hospital.
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