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The Centro Hospitalar do Médio Ave (CHMA), made up of the Vila Nova de Famalicão and Santo Tirso hospitals, has an occupancy rate close to 100% in terms of “covid-19 room”, the administration revealed on Tuesday. .
In a written response sent to Lusa, the administration revealed that the number of beds for patients with covid-19 has been increasing, having resumed, at the beginning of the so-called second wave, with 10, going to 15, then to 28 and currently to 58..
“We are preparing to expand a bit more,” the administration said, explaining that it is expanding the area dedicated to respiratory patients (RAM) “as needed.”
The number of active cases of contagion by the new coronavirus had a percentage increase of 17% in Famalicão in one week, according to reports from the General Health Directorate, referring to the last days.
The municipality of Famalicão, between October 19 and Monday, registered 174 new cases of covid-19, going from 1,021 to 1,195.
However, Hospital Famalicão has not yet transferred patients to other hospitals.
A new ADR is expected soon in the Medical-Surgical Emergency Service.
Visits are suspended, with exceptions evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Scheduled inpatient surgery has been temporarily reduced to priority cases.
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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