The renowned Club Noel Children’s Clinic Foundation, in the south of Cali, is critical of the increase in children who have come to the emergency room due to respiratory problems, in addition, due to dengue infections.
“We are in our emergency department in an extremely critical situation due to a continuous increase and high number of our patients in the emergency room. We have an overoccupancy of up to 251%“said the medical manager of the children’s clinic, Luz Miriam Claros.
“For some time now, we have been meeting a large demand from patients, but we are under collapse,” said the director.
He pointed out that this situation has worsened in the last two months and the collapse has been going on for three weeks.
The board explained Due to this saturation in the emergency room of the pediatric clinic, the capacity with other spaces had to be expanded by 54% with a maximum care capacity for 102 patients, simultaneously.
The outlook is not at all hopeful, since for Giraldo, these diseases could extend for three more months, an emergency that forces health authorities to formulate measures.
At the same time, according to the medical manager of the Club Noel Children’s Clinic Foundation, the hospital’s resources are scarce in the face of patient demand.
The case of this healthcare center is just one example of the crisis that other private clinics, like this one, and public hospitals in Cali are also facing, especially due to dengue.
According to the Cali Health Secretariat, Epidemiological week number 18, which includes April 28 to May 4, registered 1,250 new cases. This represents so far the week with the most reports so far in 2024.
The head of this office in the Valleucanca capital, Germán Escobar, said that there have been 17,227 reports of dengue. “We had a trend of decreasing cases and now we are alert.”
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