The Intensive Care Units for Covid patients in hospitals in Faro and Portimão, from the University Hospital Center of the Algarve (CHUA), have an occupancy rate of 87%, while the wards for those patients are at 80%, he revealed yesterday to Sul Informação Chairperson of the Board of Directors of CHUA.
Ana Castro, who spoke during the opening of the new hospitalization for non-covid patients, which, since yesterday, has been operating on the first floor of Hospital de São Gonçalo, in Lagos, but under the management of CHUA, added that “we are currently in a comfortable situation for what is the reality of the country. But we are also preparing ourselves so that we always have a guaranteed answer and that we don't lack an answer».
According to the official, yesterday, the CHUA wards dropped their occupation to 80%. “At Arena, we were being discharged, we had 42 patients hospitalized in the morning, but we were admitted between 6 and 8”, he added.
Also in Intensive Care, the Algarve's public hospitals continue “with vacancies”. “We have 21 patients hospitalized in Faro and 15 in Portimão, so we still have vacancies on one side or the other and we are increasing capacity», guaranteed Ana Castro.
For his part, Paulo Neves, member of the Board of Directors of CHUA, told our newspaper that, in recent weeks, Covid Intensive Care “almost doubled”. «In Portimão, there are now eight more beds in Intensive Care, in Faro that's another 10», he revealed.
The reactivation of spaces in private hospitals - in Faro, in the old Hospital Santa MariaOn Lagos, in São Gonçalo – served precisely to remove non-covid patients from public hospitals, freeing up space to reorganize the response to the growing cases of those infected by SARS-Cov-2.
Yesterday, at the opening of the new internment wing in Lagos, the chairperson of the Board of Directors of CHUA had explained that this initiative allowed "to gain more room to reorganize services, especially the one that has us most concerned, which is Intensive Care".
In addition to responding to patients from the Algarve, CHUA has also been responding to requests from outside the region, with patients coming from Setúbal or the Alentejo coast being admitted to the field hospital installed in Arena, in Portimão.
Ana Castro stressed that, «whenever we are asked, we continue to respond, within our availability». However, yesterday, «we didn't have any requests».
In terms of the pandemic, this Thursday the numbers in the Algarve were relatively encouraging, compared to the rest of the country. After the previous day, Wednesday, the Algarve region recorded its maximum number of daily cases of new infections (500), yesterday that number dropped to 327 cases. Will it stay that way today?
Also the admissions decreased: there were 11 fewer hospitalized patients (total 246), less 3 in Intensive Care (total 36) and 1 less ventilated (17). However, although there were highs, as mentioned by the chairman of the Board of Directors of CHUA, there were also many deaths – 10, according to data from the DGS.
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