“ICU beds at the national level are already collapsed,” warns Peruvian intensive care unit nndc | PERU

The president of the Peruvian Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Jesús Valverde, said on Monday that the beds of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the country are already collapsed due to the increase in severe cases of coronavirus (COVID-19).

Speaking to RPP, he explained that patients come to health centers to be treated at the third level because they are in serious condition, which has led to the fact that the supply is crowded in both hospitals and private centers.

“Today the hospital beds, which were the reserve of the hospitals, are already filled. What we see is that the patient’s transfer takes place directly from home to level III hospitals. At this point we can say that ICUs at the national level are already collapsed, our growth is taking place in large areas outside the UCI, “he said.

In this direction, he stated that the solution to this problem is not only to increase the number of intensive care beds, but also to strengthen primary care and early detection of cases, in order to prevent their unfavorable evolution.

“The pandemic has shown that there is a shortage of intensive care physicians across the country, we are facing a global crisis of intensive care physicians, it is happening all over the world, it is happening in Europe, in North America, and Peru was no stranger to to stay. Latin America does not have a number of intensifiers similar to first world countriesor, ”he complained.

-Increasing ICU beds-

It should be noted that the executive branch has put in place extraordinary economic and financial measures to strengthen the specialized health response systems against coronavirus (COVID-19). Through Emergency decree no. 001-2021, the purchase of 300 intensive care kits is reported.

Minsa will deliver the biomedical equipment to the entities in the health sector at the proposal of the General Directorate of Sanitary Operations (DGOS).