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ORwhite containers where the urgency dedicated to COVID-19-19 of the largest hospital in the country are installed in front of the Emergency Center and separated from the main building to guarantee the safety of other patients who will undergo their treatments, consultations and surgeries there.
The new wing was created recently after the first phase of the pandemic, concentrating the services previously provided by the Red Cross tents, the space in the reception Central and prefabricated hospital.
The intention was to “separate suspected patients from non-suspects by creating separate circuits,” says Dr. Jacques Santos, a deputy from the address of the Emergency Service.
The question of whether the influx of patients with COVID-19-19 or suspected of being infected, affirms the doctor that “it has been day by day, more and more”.
“We have capacity for 26 patients and right now the capacity is almost full in ‘they would coexist‘, although they are sick waiting to be transferred to the services, ”he explains.
The movement is visible at the door of urgency. The day of the Lusa report in Santa María, held on Tuesday. There is Ambulances do INEM stationed health professionals equipped with suits protection and a few dozen people waiting to get tested COVID-19-19: some are sitting pilaretes that flank the promenade, while others prefer to wait their turn.
Inside, health professionals are deployed in the screening area, where they perform zaragatoas, and circulate through the different individual boxes, where the most seriously ill are found, lying on stretchers waiting to be transferred to other services.
In this service, there are ventilators, a resuscitation room and all the necessary medicines and machines to attend to the most urgent cases.
“We are admitting many patients to intensive care”, says Jacques Santos, recalling that at the beginning of the second wave there seemed to be less serious patients, because the population infected he was younger, but “it was a mistake to believe that.”
“In the midst of so many new patients, it seems that the virus is being less aggressive,” but “the severity of the patients is not less,” he observes.
Every day, between 100 and 150 users go through the emergency room, according to the president of the Lisbon North Hospital Center, Daniel Ferro, considering that having a separate emergency room helps, because it is avoided “as much as possible” the ” contact “with the institution, which monitor the two-thirds who went to the ER and were sent home but may still have symptoms.
Despite the long months of pandemic and the tiredness expressed on the face of many health professionals, the desire to help remains.
“In terms of nursing, we have maintained the same profile since March until today ”, said Carlos Neto, manager nurse of the Emergency Services, who has been in the fight against pandemic since the first day.
For the nurse, the greatest difficulties are “in the pressure of insecurity” that the professionals have and “in the uncertainty about the future”, due to the “prolongation of this situation”, which is “noticed in the whole team” .
“But we do not lower our guard,” guarantees Carlos Neto, considering that the greatest challenge professionals face is maintaining “security profiles, avoiding the contingency of material and human resources difficulties, and providing the necessary assistance.” .
It is a situation that requires “a great effort” and although the professionals are not yet exhausted, all this “leaves some marks due to the temporary extension of the pandemic and without a doubt for what is to come, because it will still take a few months ”.
For Dr. Jacques Santos, the problem is that the professionals did not have a period in which they were “absent from the infection“.
Making a comparison with influenza A, the doctor says that there it was known that there was a “long period” of calm (spring, summer and summer). autumn), which did not happen with this virus.
Only in lockdown, but there was not enough time to recover, and at that time there were many health professionals infected or quarantined and that made it “difficult to fully enjoy the vacation.”
A pandemic from COVID-19-19 has already caused more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 44.5 million cases of infection around the world, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,428 people died from 132,616 cases of infection confirmed, according to the most recent Address-General health.
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