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More than 20 users of the Tâmega e Sousa Hospital Center, in Penafiel, were transferred to hospital units in Minho.
At the Braga hospital, there are currently 42 users hospitalized with the new coronavirus, 18 of them transferred from the Padre Américo Hospital, in Penafiel.
At the Santa Luzia Hospital, in Viana do Castelo, run by the Alto Miño Local Health Unit (ULSAM), there are 13 hospitalized with the virus (five in intensive care), until 12:00 on Monday, but the hospital has not announced how many are from Penafiel.
Speaking to O MINHO, a ULSAM source said that NHS hospitals are “working in a network”, which allows the units with the highest overload to transfer users to others with greater response capacity at this time.
“It’s a perfectly normal and predictable situation,” the source said.
The Braga Hospital has an occupancy rate of 75% of the beds currently available for patients with covid-19, the administration of the unit to Lusa announced today.
In a written response, the Braga Hospital revealed to Lusa that 42 patients infected with the new coronavirus are currently admitted to the infirmary, 18 of which were transferred from the Tâmega y Sousa Hospital Center.
In intensive care at Hospital de Braga there are seven patients with covid-19 and level 2 of the Contingency Plan has already been activated.
“The scheduled assistance activity has not been affected so far,” the administration said.
Visits have been suspended since the pandemic began.
The administration of the Braga hospital stressed that the number of beds reserved for patients infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus “will be readjusted whenever the epidemiological situation justifies it.”
“If necessary, in the infirmary, the beds reserved for covid can exceed one hundred and a half and in the PICU (Multipurpose Intensive Care Unit) they can exceed 40,” he added.
The number of active cases of infection by the new coronavirus had a percentage increase of 12.6% in Braga in one week, according to reports from the General Directorate of Health.
The municipality of Braga, between October 19 and Monday, registered 230 new cases, going from 1,819 to 2,049 active infections.
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 43.5 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,371 people died from 124,432 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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