Health Minister Francisco Alabi has reported that El Salvador Hospital still has 300 beds available. New cases are currently on the rise in the country, Health said.
An estimated 600 of the 979 beds in the Hospital del Salvador are already occupied, said Health Minister Francisco Alabi, who also added that new cases, calls and hospital care by COVID-19 has increased.
“There is an increase in the number of cases and on the new day (January), we have more than 330 cases, there has been an admission to hospital areas. There is support and the advantage of having the whole strategy consolidated in At the moment we have availability even in the hospital El Salvador we are still around with an availability of more than 300 beds, which is a very important fact.However weeks ago this figure has changed , there are more Salvadorans in El Salvador hospital, “Francisco Alabi said in a morning television interview.
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The hospital for patients with COVID-19 located in the former facilities of the International Center for Fairs and Conventions (Cifco) has an estimated 979 beds, of which 105 are ICU beds and 143 intermediate care beds, which they could become ICU beds. More 731 hospital beds to care for stable COVID-19 patients, according to an article published in The Lancet Global Health in December 2020.
New cases, calls and hospital care for COVID-19 has increased. photo EDH
Francisco Alabi mentioned that the increase in cases is due to crowds and family reunions, a product of the New Year festivities.
“Now if we see assistance to hospital areas, increased calls to call centers and a number of indicators that alert us to this situation because precisely this can lead in some way to increase these hospital admissions, that number of patients with complications, and of course the number of patients who could have a lethality due to COVID-19, ”Alabi said.
The official stressed that the only way to prevent the disease is to practice basic measures and comply with biosecurity protocols, “is the only way we can limit the transmission from person to person, prevent a Salvadoran (with COVID-19 ) to get in touch are a Salvadoran who has not suffered from the disease and who may be susceptible and that if in any way if there is evidence that there are cases of reinfection, “Alabi mentioned.
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In the question, the head of health mentioned that in the country there are no documented cases of reinfection by COVID-19, “however, there are certain parameters at the national level that have been tried to reset to assert or clinically categorize as a reinfection.
Internationally there is a way to be able to frame and be able to frame the diagnoses of the reinfection criteria because there is still a lot to investigate in front of this specific part, which is a period of 40 days in which test can come out positive or negative. And that means that a Salvadoran could have had the disease, eventually the test was negative, but in a period of 90 days, he could present the positive test and be due to the first infection, “he explained.
Alabi detailed that unlike the critical months of the first outbreak of COVID-19 which were in July and early August, in which the number of cases reached over 449, now has the support of the ‘Hospital del Salvador, while during the previous months (July and August) the entire health system of the 31 hospitals were working with all hospital areas in covid-19 care. “Now El Salvador is still with the capacity to be able to attend in one place, El Salvador Hospital,” he stressed.
With the increase in cases reported to Covid-19, with an estimated 330 new cases per day and 9 deaths from COVID-19 per day and more than 48,905 accumulated positive cases to viruses. The head of Health highlights that of the cases confirmed by the virus 80% are asymptomatic “and 20% require intervention, of these 15% receive treatment for moderate or severe symptoms and 5% progress to an area of intensive care where requires mechanical ventilation, ”Alabi details.
The official adds that the number of reported cases, although they are asymptomatic cases, gives them a parameter to know the population that is still susceptible to viruses and which is an estimated 6.5 million Salvadorans, Alabi detailed.