The Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes (HJJF), in Beja, received a patient infected with covid-19 from a hospital in the Local Health Unit in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (ULSLVT).
The transfer took place during this week, not having the Baixo Alentejo Local Health Unit (ULSBA) if the patient was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (UCI) from bejense hospital. A source at ULSBA said that “whenever there is availability and requests arise, we are open to receiving patients from other units ”, justified.
The HJJF has 8 camas at UCI, that has always registered an occupation of 100%, given the severity of some patients, that whenever there is a death, the most serious patient in the Covid Infirmary that works on the 3rd floor of that hospital.
According to the ULSBA report corresponding to the 24,00 hours of Thursday, There 8 UCI boarding schools 63 at Covid Infirmary, justifies the institution on its website that “the Hospital de Beja has 71 infirmary beds and we have a fee of 88,73% occupation ”, adding that “in the face of 36 beds foreseen in the last phase of the institution's Contingency Plan the occupancy is 75% more ”, justify.
In addition to hospitalizations, the ULSBA report reveals that in the thirteen municipalities in the district of Beja, except Odemira, your area of ​​medical jurisdiction, There 1845 active cases, a total of 5.778, having in the last 24 hours the registration of 76 Novos infetados, Besides 2.898 people under active surveillance in your home.
The number of fatalities per covid-19 is 189, and in the municipality of Beja there is a 51 dead, 28 in MĂ©rtola, 27 Moura, 24 in Serpa and 20 in Cuba, the overwhelming majority of outbreaks in homes.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
