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A woman, hospitalized with covid-19, died and about 200 patients were transferred due to a large fire in a public hospital in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, according to local press.
According to the newspaper O Globo, a 42-year-old woman, hospitalized for covid-19 and in serious condition, died while being transferred during the fire at the Bonsucesso Federal Hospital, located in the north of Rio de Janeiro.
About 200 patients were removed from the first building of the hospital, which has the capacity to serve 400 people. At least 175 were relocated to other wards that were not affected by the flames and another 25, in serious condition, were transferred to other hospitals, according to official sources quoted by the press.
The fire started at dawn on Tuesday in a warehouse located in the basement of the first pavilion of the Bonsucesso Hospital, for causes still unknown to the authorities.
As the smoke spread, the management chose to empty two buildings, pavilions one and two, that cared for patients with covid-19, of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the maternity ward.
Some patients were carried on a stretcher or mattress from the first building hit by the fire and waited in a car concert shop next to the hospital complex until they were seen again.
The flames were brought under control shortly before noon, but firefighters were still in the building today, checking for possible new outbreaks, removing damage and assessing whether the structure was affected.
The Municipal Health Secretariat reported that it made its entire network of medical posts available to receive other patients who need to be transferred.
Of the patients transferred to other hospitals, four were admitted for covid-19, since this hospital was designated last March by the Ministry of Health as a reference unit in Rio de Janeiro for the treatment of the new coronavirus.
Another of the four transferred patients was transferred to the Riocentro convention center, where the ‘Carioca’ mayor’s office installed a field hospital since April to care for those infected by covid-19 and that was already in the process of being dismantled.
Brazil is the Portuguese-speaking country most affected by the pandemic and one of the most affected in the world, accounting for the second number of deaths (almost 5.4 million cases and 157,397 deaths), after the United States.
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