Situation of the Emergencies of the La Paz Hospital.
The Emergency Department of the Hospital La Paz, in Madrid, reveals a picture of saturation simply after the Christmas holidays, with beds in numerous corridors. Health sources point out that within the non-covid wards there have been 111 sufferers early on Monday, of which 103 ought to already be in a room on the ground. Some of them have been admitted on January 5 or 6 and are nonetheless within the ER.
From the hospital they clarify that the inflow of sufferers in latest days is being better than traditional and that this Sunday there have been greater than 520 in a single day. 70% of those emergencies are attributable to respiratory infections in very outdated sufferers who see decompensated different pathologies. There are not any covid sufferers awaiting admission and a lot of the sufferers have viruses apart from the flu. The hospital is getting ready new areas for admission and expediting transfers between the facilities in La Paz and people in Cantoblanco and the Carlos III Hospital.
The sufferers within the photographs that accompany this video don’t have respiratory issues and have examined unfavourable for covid, syncytial virus (RSV) and flu, says Guillén del Barrio, an ER nurse and MATS union delegate, who assures that these scenes are completely different from these of different winters and will not be defined solely by the rebound in respiratory viruses. The rest room signifies that, to a big extent, the reason for the arrival of sufferers is because of issues in major care.