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Bogota’s race against the clock to prevent healthcare collapse
by Adriaan Alsema June 23, 2020
The coronavirus is coming eerily close to collapsing the healthcare system in Colombia’s capital Bogota, which saw its intensive care unit capacity drop from 50% to 30% in just 10 days.
Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez said Wednesday the government had sent the first 130 ventilators that would expand the hospitals’ capacity to treat life-threatening COVID-19 cases from 771 to 901.
The admission of at least 108 critical cases over the past 10 days, left the capital with 250 ICU’s.
If the available ICU capacity drops to below 25%, the city hall will declare a red alert, according to the city’s Health Secretary Alejandro Gomez. A red alert would imply a reversal of lockdown relaxations, according to the mayor...
Bogota’s race against the clock to prevent healthcare collapse
by Adriaan Alsema June 23, 2020
The coronavirus is coming eerily close to collapsing the healthcare system in Colombia’s capital Bogota, which saw its intensive care unit capacity drop from 50% to 30% in just 10 days.
Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez said Wednesday the government had sent the first 130 ventilators that would expand the hospitals’ capacity to treat life-threatening COVID-19 cases from 771 to 901.
The admission of at least 108 critical cases over the past 10 days, left the capital with 250 ICU’s.
If the available ICU capacity drops to below 25%, the city hall will declare a red alert, according to the city’s Health Secretary Alejandro Gomez. A red alert would imply a reversal of lockdown relaxations, according to the mayor...