The 25 hospital beds announced by the state government to treat patients from Foz do Iguaçu who have Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SRAG) are already operating at the Madre de Dio Hospital, in São Miguel do Iguaçu, 45 kilometers from the city.
The situation is complicated mainly due to the number of sick children. Of this total number of beds, 10 are in the pediatric ICU and 15 are in nursing. In Foz, hospitals are operating at their limit.
The beds will relieve the need for overcrowding at the Padre Germano Lauck Municipal Hospital, which has been experiencing overcrowding for two weeks with a waiting list for hospitalizations, including for children.
At Itamed Hospital, the Intensive Care Units – ICUs, adult, pediatric and neonatal are 100% occupied, according to information provided this Thursday, 12, by the institution. The adult ICU has 20 beds, the neonatal ICU has 14 beds and the pediatric ICU has a total of 10.
The hospital receives patients from private healthcare and the Unified Health System – SUS.
As of Monday, the 9th, according to the health bulletin, a total of 21 people had died in Foz due to respiratory syndromes, including adults and children.
Adult beds for Medianeira
The state government also authorized this Thursday, the 12th, the opening of another 38 beds in the West region to care for patients with SRAG.
In Medianeira, 10 adult ward beds will be made available at the Hospital de Clínicas. Another 20 beds will be opened in Toledo, some for children, and 8 at the Hospital Retaguarda, in Cascavel.
According to data from the Influenza Epidemiological Surveillance Information System (Sivep-Gripe), Paraná has registered, from January to date, 12.011 cases of SARS with hospitalization and 598 deaths for serious syndromes.
Of this total, 1.379 are caused by Influenza and 560 by Covid-19. SARS caused by other respiratory viruses accounted for 3.043, unspecified SARS 4.877, and caused by other etiological agents 56. There are still 2.096 cases that remain under investigation.
Of the 598 deaths, 124 (20,7%) were confirmed to have the virus Influenza; 79 (13,2%) for Covid-19; 56 (9,4%) for other respiratory viruses; 14 (2,3%) for other etiological agents and 317 (53,0%) as unspecified SARS.
Another 281 deaths from other causes were reported. In the case of flu-like syndromes, with sampling monitoring, 1.392 cases were recorded.
