“ICU beds nationwide are already collapsed,” warns Peruvian intensive care unit nndc | PERU

The president of the Peruvian Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Jesús Valverde, said on Monday that the beds of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the country are already collapsed due to the increase in severe cases of coronavirus (COVID -19).

Speaking to RPP, he explained that patients come to health centers to be cared for at the third level because they are in a serious condition, which has led to the supply being cut in both hospitals and private centers.

“Today the hospital beds, which were the hospital reserve, are already being filled. What we see is that the patient’s passage is given directly from his home to third-level hospitals. At the moment we can say that the ICUs at the national level are already collapsed, our growth is taking place in areas outside the UCsAnd, “he said.

In this line, he argued that the solution to this problem is not only to increase the number of intensive care beds, but also to strengthen primary care and timely detection of cases to prevent them from evolving unfavorably.

“The pandemic has shown that there is a shortage of intensive care physicians across the country, we are experiencing a global crisis of intensive care physicians, it is happening all over the world, it is happening in Europe in North America and Peru was no stranger to that. Latin America does not have the number of intensivists similar to first world countriesor, ”he lamented.

Increase in ICU beds-

It should be noted that the Executive Branch established extraordinary measures in economic and financial matters to strengthen the systems of specialized health response to coronavirus (COVID-19). using the emergency decree No. 001-2021, It is reported the purchase of 300 kits of intensive care units.

Minsa will deliver the biomedical equipment to the entities of the health sector at the proposal of the General Directorate of Health Operations (DGOS).