Due to lack of supplies for intubated patients, Rio de Janeiro uses veterinary sedatives in patients

“Elective (non-urgent) surgeries are suspended in the city of Rio and that includes 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 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 of Social Health Organization, supplies for intubation have reached “pre-collapse.”

For this reason, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government 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 Deputy Secretary General of the The UN, Amia Mohammed, to request aid and shipments of medicines, vaccines and other supplies are crucial today in dealing with the pandemic.

In this context, the city of Rio and the State of São Paulo announced on Friday an easing 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 phase of red transition, with the opening of stores 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.