No hello cama para su padre. The young man touched the door of the San José Public Hospital, in Callao, the first port of Peru, desperate for medical attention for his father, covid-19 nurse, but the medical staff could not attend, but the nurse no podium caminar. Although the center has medical oxygen, the doctors say that it cares for space in the units of intermediate and critical care, because the family tends to take the oxygen to avoid the health of the male. Buy a five-liter oxygen balloon for six days, which costs 190 dollars, although the first cargo lasts only one hour. “It is invested considerably and not only by the diner, but it is subject to availability. This sensation of escalation is fatal ”, explains the young man, who prefers not to give his name. As it is, miles of Peruvian Sufren day to day the collapse of the health system and the failure of the oxygen hall in the middle of the pandemic, which has covered the lives of more than 40,000 people.
To avoid making coals during the meal to buy oxygen, this Peruvian family has decided to spend $ 600 on an oxygen concentrator, an alternative to which many Peruvians can access. The price of a concentrator of 5 liters of equivalent fluid and more than two minimums in Peru. And the 500 deposition soles for aliquoting a cylinder of 5 cubic meters in this case at the rate of the minimum monthly remuneration.
Medical oxygen concentrators do not require recharging, but are continuously electric, and are available for sale in some electro-medical stores, but are also sold on regular sales web pages, on Facebook and other social media. As well as some covid-19 seals from the hospitals and not to find a bed, other with economical resources avoid internase in buscan the oxygen by his account: ya sea in balloons of 10 cubic meters, o in cannulas and other devices of oxygen indringing .
In the first year of the pandemic in Peru, tens of thousands of people were killed due to a lack of oxygen or because the prices of the removable cylinders have been inexorable for the mayors, by them, the churches, regional governors, companies and artists collecting and install oxygen plants in all regions. This time, there is more oxygen in the health facilities, for the staff and the hospitalization rooms and critical care facilities in order to meet the demand.
Lisbeth Castro, Representative of the Defense Forces of the People’s Region of Loreto, informed on a radio that, since July, 25 intensive care beds in the covid module of the Regional Hospital could not be used because they had mechanical fans or die. existent fails implementos. The four failures in Loreto one of the most important musicians of Peru, Alberto Sánchez Casanova, founder of the group of the Cumbian amazon Los Wemblers. He commented on Facebook that a space was created in the covid module of the Regional Hospital, but never the derivative. “Solo works 27 beds, but not for my dad”, he wrote.
Informality and speculation
Luis Barsallo is a small businessman who is selling just the right amount of money in Callao. It’s famously known as the first of the pandemics, to the point that it’s known as ‘the angel of oxygen’ and in the press was released as one of the characters of 2020. It has a market of sellers speculating with the price of oxygen, the empresario helps customers who present the documents of the covid-19 diagnostic to ensure we do not try intermediaries.
Barsallo said that last week the recipients agreed that they would not be able to sell their papers to anyone who had to close a deal on precaution. Rejuvenate the Jews and the birds, but with police protection. On Saturday, the Public Ministry of Callao conducted an investigation into the results of alleged misconduct against ‘the angel of oxygen’. The madrugada del domingo, 110 persons durmieron en carpas o sober plasticis and cartons afuera de su tienda, a la espera de recargar cylindros de 10 metro cubicos, aun con la incetidumbre de si Barsallo abriría el local.
“You can have a small force, but there are people who have the ability to die in the solitude of a health establishment and are making it possible to quit at home: there is a sensation in this second where the oxygen is something that can be self-administered , but the first option must be that the oxygen provides the hospitalization: it must be consumed with prescription and medical supervision ”, commented on EL País Paicia Alicia Abanto, adjunct of public services of the Defense of the People.
Please note that a National Superintendent of Health has published a weekly report on the availability of oxygen in hospitals and clinics. “If a person goes to a hospital and does not take the medicine, because the oxygen is a medicine, he must review the report and complain if it is not burned,” he recommends. “In the midst of this increase in the demand for medicinal oxygen, we are facing the problem of informal and illegal trade — including in the disclaimer of public relations — and the State’s very limited intervention to tax and sanction. This sum has been distributed by an authorized operator, because it is automated in a case with oxygen that is not good quality can cost the life ”, adds the employee.
Abanto reports that in the emergencies of hospitals devolven to his cases to the patients. “They say that their saturation is not very bad, but they should be referred to a hospital where a bed is available,” he said. If the sanitary authorities are informed that there are no critical care units, they are located in regions where the indicators of the second or the other are moderate.
The engineer and data analyst Rodrigo Parra commented on the broadcaster Radioprograms this domingo that the occupancy rate of UCI cameras in the second half is faster than the offer. “The occupation was 20 UCI beds per day in the first half and now there are 30”, he said. Although the UCI’s maximum occupancy of the space has reached 1,553 this year, it has reached 1,865 with an offer of 1,900 beds, in addition to the fact that these figures do not provide “true respect for hospitals”.
The Peruvian Society of Intensive Medicine has been revealing since March that its specialized medicines are qualified for the critical care units, no more than 700. In addition, the Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti, has reported that only 60% of staff salud is operative, ya sea porque failure, o porque por edad o comorbilidades tuvo que abandonar el puesto. Until the end of the year, 276 doctors have died of the new coronavirus in Peru: it is the third Latin American country with the most disasters in Mexico and Brazil, but in proportional terms on the loss of the mayor: there are less doctors for every million residents. This morning, a new quarantine was issued by the two departments of the country where the pandemic was classified by the Government as an “extreme situation”. Between Lima and Callao, the Peruvian port where the population enters the hallway odyssey an oxygen tank for covid’s.