Rio de Janeiro uses veterinary sedatives to intubate patients with covid

At the same time, moreover, relatives and nursing organizations have denounced that Due to the lack of sedatives in various parts of the country, patients come out of intubation without sedatives and tied to their beds, causing a scandal.

“Elective (non-urgent) surgeries are suspended in the city of Rio, including those at the veterinary center. It does not make sense to continue consuming products essential for intubation and human health in veterinary units. We use neuromuscular blockers and sedatives for people with Covid-19 or other illnesses that require intubation. “Soranz said amid the complaints at a press conference.

This emergency is not just in Rio.

For the Brazilian Institute for the Organization of Social Health, supplies for intubation have reached “pre-collapse”.

Therefore, the government chancellery of Jair Bolsonaro reported that on Monday a plane will arrive with donations from Spain with supplies for intubation and the Forum of Governors of Brazil met with the UN Deputy Secretary General, Amia mohammed, to request aid and shipments of drugs, vaccines and other supplies that are crucial today in dealing with the pandemic.

In this context, the city of Rio and the state of São Paulo have announced a relaxation of measures due to the reduction in the occupancy rate of hospitals, which continues to be around 80%.

In São Paulo, the quarantine has entered a red transition phase, with a commercial opening for eight hours and the holding of religious services until May 2. From the 24th, up to 19 restaurants, parks, clubs and gymnasiums will come into operation.

Face-to-face lessons have been released, but currently the use is practically for dining rooms, while the vaccination of teachers has started.

San Pablo has 46 million inhabitants and is the most affected, with more than 85,000 deaths and currently has an 85.3% hospital occupancy rate in intensive care beds.

Rio de Janeiro, for its part, reopened the commercial and gastronomic activity, but prohibited to stay on the beach and, as well as the state of São Paulo, the night curfew is maintained.

The situation is so dire in the country that the Federal Ministry of Health today asked women not to get pregnant now to avoid exposing themselves to the risk of a coronavirus pandemic.

At a press conference, the primary care secretary of the health portfolio, Raphael Camara, asked “if possible, postpone the pregnancy a bit” to have a “calmer” pregnancy.

This week, the organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), present in this country since 1991, has warned that Brazil is going through a “humanitarian catastrophe” and blamed, mainly, “the lack of political will” of the Bolsonaro government to implement “a clear and coordinated policy at the national level to fight against the pandemic”.

Far from listening to this demand, the same one that most of the governors and mayors of the most affected areas made months ago, Bolsonaro returned today to attack leaders who have imposed quarantines, curfews and restrictions in an attempt to stop the flow of the coronavirus.

“Speaking of excess, some city guards, some police in Brazil are beating someone who pushes a cart of popcorn for a living,” he told his supporters to justify his position.

Bolsonaro is at the worst moment of his tenure’s popularity amid the quarantines adopted by governors, both pro-government and opposition, he has been fighting since the start of the pandemic.

The president of Brazil suffered a serious setback this week because the Senate has opened a commission of inquiry into its omissions in the management of the pandemic.

In addition, the Supreme Court overturned the convictions which disqualified the leader of the opposition and current favorite in the polls, the former president. Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva, who yesterday left the door open to be a candidate to avoid a re-election of Bolsonaro.