Saint Paul on alert: sedatives have been used up to intubate coronavirus patients – telam

The state has recorded 85,475 deaths, 1,095 in the past 24 hours.

The state of São Paulo, the most affected by the coronavirus in Brazil, is days away from the collapse of sedatives and other drugs needed to painlessly intubate intensive care patients suffering from Covid-19 and He demanded an urgent dispatch of remedies to the Federal Ministry of Healthl, reported official sources.

“The supplies we have are good for a few days,” said São Paulo Health Secretary Jean Gorinchteyn, who said he sent the tenth official request to the Health Ministry.

San Pablo experiences the biggest wave of hospitalizations in its history – he reached 13,000 occupants of intensive care beds two weeks ago and as of Wednesday he was around 11,000 after the rigorous quarantine – with which he ran out of supplies such as sedatives to intubate victims of Covid-19 with protocols .

“The supplies we have are good for a few days,” São Paulo Health Secretary Jean Gorinchteyn said.“

“We have been ordering the intubation kits for 40 days.”Gorinchteyn said, adding that it is necessary to start supplying 643 hospitals within the next 24 hours.

São Paulo Governor Joao Doria announced plans to make an international purchase and accused the Health Ministry of “confiscating” President Jair Bolsonaro’s federal government from the national pharmaceutical production of supplies for the intubation.

Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga has promised to purchase the so-called “intubation kit” through the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

San Pablo, with 46 million inhabitants, showed this Wednesday the drop in hospitalizations due to the emergency phase of the rigid quarantine which lasted three weeks in March.

On April 1, the intensive care bed occupancy rate was 92.6% (13,120 patients) and today 86.4% (11,798 patients). The state has recorded 85,475 deaths, including 1,095 in the past 24 hours.

Hospitalization rates fell 17.4% last week from the previous week while deaths rose 13% during the same period and infections by 5%.

The state of São Paulo is experiencing the largest wave of hospitalizations in its history. In addition, in the past 24 hours there have been 1,095 deaths“

As of Tuesday, Brazil has accumulated 13,599,994 infected and 358,425 deaths since February 26, 2020.

The state of Rio de Janeiro is the second in dead and this Wednesday the mayor of the city of the same name, Eduardo Paes, relaxed the restrictions and allowed team sports and physical activities in clubs and parks without crowds.

The stay on the beaches is still suspended, but not individual physical activity.