Rosario: Because of the cold, 90% of critical beds have already been occupied

From the health field of the municipality they indicated that they are close to 600 between the public system and the private operators. They specify that there is no collapse, but delays in the guards.

Consecutive days of intense cold in the city triggered consultations and hospitalizations in Rosario's health system. To the point that there is already a 90% occupancy of almost 600 critical beds for respiratory images between the public and private sectors. "In some centers and hospitals, we are seeing an increase in demand of 30 to 50%," said the municipal secretary of public health, Leonardo Caruana.

The grievor stated that there was "no situation of collapse or overflow" "

At the same time, the municipality and the province worked in an articulated way with prepaid services and social to refer patients in case of missing space in areas of the state. 19659003] In dialogue with LaCapital Caruana pointed out that the peculiarity of this year was "the late arrival of low temperatures", which occurred only in the first days of June, compared to other autumns more temperate.

-continued the official- according to the epidemiological curves we have, there are always peaks of consultation and hospitalization demand for respiratory symptoms in the last the first week of June and the first week of July.

In this sense, the head of the local health portfolio confided that in the past two weeks there had been a sharp increase in consultations in all health centers and hospitals of Rosario "[19659003] Caruana said that at the present time "there is 90% occupancy of critical beds in the health system" referenced for this type of seasonal tables, especially in public health centers .

As you may know in Rosario, there are nearly 600 critical beds between public and private providers: 259 for neonatology, 277 for adults and 38 for pediatric care.

"The increase in consultations in the public and private sectors is considerable, which is why it can happen that wait times in the guards are bigger than usual", added Caruana.

He immediately clarified that the health system of the city "does not go by leaving a saturation scenario." Up to this year, we have not had full filling situations in our beds intensive therapies. "

The head of the local Public Health Secretariat said that every year" we meet with the province, social workers and private providers in the early days of high demand to optimize all beds in the city. "

In this regard mentioned the importance of using" mechanisms called abridged hospitalization where there are intensive treatments of four hours to avoid definitive hospitalizations, mainly children. "[19659003] This pre-intervention modality has allowed the decompression of intensive care rooms, especially at the children's hospital Víctor J. Vilela where there were days of 40 hospitalizations abbreviated es.

Caruana pointed out that comes "working on the basis of an agreement with the private sector where we optimize all critical beds to avoid what or has happened on a few occasions in the past, when patients were circulating in the city with the ambulance unable to get into an effector. "

In recent weeks, the administration has detected an increase in demand" in some health centers. 30%, in other 50%, but without collapse. "

Caruana mentioned as mitigating the increase in demand" that beds were increased in the Zona Norte Hospital and in Centennial, in addition to the great We work with the social security and private sector sectors. "

" We are going through an intense winter, similar to other years, with a lot of work but with great case-based resolution based on effort. interdisciplinary, "closed.

High Levels of Vaccination for High-Risk Groups Stand Out

Municipal Secretary of Public Health Leonardo Caruana highlighted this year's "high levels of influenza immunization" in groups at risk.

"We started the campaign on the 3rd of March and we had very good coverage in all the vaccination centers in the city".

The National Immunization Schedule includes the influenza vaccine for pregnant women, which should be applied to any trimester of pregnancy. The vaccine protects both the mother and the baby (thanks to the pbadage of antibodies through the placenta). In case of not having received it during pregnancy, the mother must be vaccinated within 10 days after delivery. Children from 6 to 24 months are also included. They should receive 2 doses, separated by at least 4 weeks if they have not previously received two doses of influenza vaccine. Those who have received at least two doses of influenza vaccine should receive only one dose. In addition, it includes people aged 2 to 64 with certain conditions such as obesity, diabetes, respiratory diseases, heart disease, conbad or acquired immunodeficiencies, oncology patients, transplant recipients or chronic renal failure patients. under dialysis. At the same time, adults over 65 and health personnel are included