San Jose, Costa Rica.
The Minister of Health of Costa Rica, Daniel Salas, responded to the offer of the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, stating that to address the pandemic is not just about relying on beds in Intensive Care Units (ICU), but to have specialized staff to attend to them.
“It ‘s not the bed per se. It’s a bed with personal ability, staff professional that it is possible to face, that the handling of the patients in is solved critical care and that is very important to write down in that possible offer that it makes El Salvador“, stressed the Costa Rican minister.
Last Wednesday the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, offered to Costa Rica, on social media, “attend to 100 Costa Rican patients in ours UCI “ and stated that in his country there is 700 of those units available.
After being consulted at a press conference, Minister Salas added that the current situation must be taken into account “very high logistics, the complicated management and the complex “of a process to transfer in plane a UN patient which is in severe condition due to covid-19.
“I think all this will be handled in the right way diplomatic where there is a kind of coordination and possibilities in light of what I have just indicated: That the legs is not a leg with respirator, but it has the staff that can take care of it “, points out the Minister of Health.
Salas emphasized that the authorities of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) have increased the capacity of beds in intensive care units in addition to 300, when at the beginning of the pandemic there was one twenty.
Data from the Ministry of Health indicate that the occupation of the units of intensive cares until Friday is in u64% (232 people), figures that have remained similar in recent weeks.
There is a section of 107 beds for patients most critical of UCsAnd that is the one that has been close to saturating in recent weeks.
Authorities have indicated that Costa Rica has no room to increase the 359 Intensive Care Units with which it counts, there is no more custom available.
COSTA RICA WAITS FOR VACCINES
The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, states in a statement distributed to the media that the country “is close to the process of vcradle “ with the “goal of protecting the population and initiating the process in the most prompt and safe manner.”
“Approaching the vaccines It gives us hope, but we can’t lower our guard, let’s keep using it mask and spacing, as well as all the recommendations still on holidays. Take care of us and take care of us to ours loved ones it’s the best way to celebrate this time as a family, ”Alvarado said.
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The president explained that due to the global limitations of vaccine production, these will not come all at once, but willor year-round, which forces to fix a prioritization in the population, that has been done with scientific and technical principles.
So far Costa Rica, country dand 5 million inhabitants, has been insured 3 million vaccines through pharmaceuticalss Pfizer, AstraZeneca and the COVAX mechanism.
Costa Rica had 150,947 cases of covid-19 then just over 9 months of pandemic, of which 1,895 have died, for one lethality rate of 1.2%.
After several months of sciences and gradual openings this country has enabled practically all the economic activities with sanitary protocols and of distancing, as well as limits of gauging. EFE