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Essalud hospitals in the north are in emergency
Friday 18 May 2012 | 8:20
Hospitals of Chiclayo, Trujillo and Piura overcrowded. There are inpatient beds in the corridors and insufficient.
Overcrowding has no solution in nosocomial northern referred to the Ombudsman. (John Mendoza)
Apparently, the most serious of all patients who come to hospitals Essalud in the north is the very Essalud. Is that in the hospital Chiclayo patients wait up on the floor . But the collapse also extends to the hospitals of Trujillo and Piura .
In the hospital emergency service Lazarte, in Trujillo, also there is a shortage of beds , which causes the members have to remain hospitalized in beds or wheelchairs who crowd the corridors of this area.
The hospital director, Louis Edwards, said that in that unit will attend daily 67 hospitalizations , despite only having capacity for 32 people . Also reported that the ICU has eight beds and only four of them are permanently occupied with inmates who have more than two years in a vegetative state.
In Piura, the main hospital is also 'sick'. In the regional hospital Cayetano Heredia is only half of beds required to serve the uninsured. The manager Essalud in Piura, Roxy Pole, said that many times, patients are treated in the corridors of the emergency room because they meet some people who are uninsured.
The Ombudsman's Office, meanwhile, yesterday made an inspection of the hospital Almanzor Aguinaga of Chiclayo and found that they had not corrected the problems identified last month . The agency said that overcrowding in the hospitals is a national problem that can not be resolved, and suggested that patients be transferred to other hospitals.
FACT
- In Trujillo, Corporate Criminal Prosecution said most of the complaints that come to his office are delayed care for pregnant women who report that their babies were stillborn or who died hours after they were born.