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The president of the board of directors of the Hospital de Braga said today that this hospital unit is “prepared” for a second wave of covid-19, but stressed that “very important” is that “there is no relaxation” in preventive measures.
Speaking with Lusa about the program “Braga closes the door to Covid-19”, launched by the Hospital de Braga, the University of Miño, the City Council of Braga and the Groups of the Health Center, João Porfírio Oliveira said that there was a “significant “reinforcement of resources and personnel in the Hospital and that” much has been learned “with the first wave.
According to the official, the Braga Hospital is strengthening the medical team with nine clinicians, has 175 beds for patients with covid-19, has increased the capacity from 40 to 45 admissions in intensive care, has created more circuits for patients with the new coronavirus and increased the ability to perform screening tests.
“This is an initiative that has been in the works for more than a month. The hospital and our partners thought it was a good idea, considering the scenario that can be predicted with winter, the arrival of flu, colds, respiratory infections, to have an intervention role in prevention and information, ”said João Porfírio Oliveira.
The person in charge of the Braga Hospital, the reference hospital for covid-19, acknowledged that there was a “relaxation” in preventive measures: “We must draw attention to the need for basic hand hygiene, which seems to me already ingrained, but there was relaxation in social distance, in respiratory etiquette and there cannot be, ”he warned.
João Porfírio Oliveira also recalled that, “when someone has any flu symptoms, whether covid or not, they should never go directly to the hospital emergency room, but call Health Line 24, so that they can be duly forwarded to the right places ”.
This is because, he said, “if someone with symptoms of Covid-19 goes to an emergency, which is a place with patients with many pathologies, they can infect those who are there or contract new pathologies. You can even get the flu and go away with covid-19. “
The possibility of a second wave of covid-19 “is a possibility,” he admitted.
“We hope there is not, but we cannot remain indifferent to the figures and what is happening in other countries. So we can’t just wait for it to happen. We are prepared to make it happen. The truth is that the first one learned a lot from the first wave ”, he assumed.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 904,000 deaths and almost 28 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,852 people died from 62,126 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 in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
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