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Municipal Health Department updates number of beds for Covid-19 and occupancy rate in the capital's SUS network
Published on 11/10/2020 - 12:51 | Updated
The municipal network has 923 beds for Covid-19. Photo: Marcos de Paula / Rio City Hall The City of Rio, through the Municipal Health Department, informs that the municipal network is currently carrying out the absolute majority of Covid-19 care, since state and private hospitals have closed beds dedicated to treating the disease.
It is also important to highlight that the City of Rio is the only one that maintains a field hospital – the one at Riocentro – in operation, since units from other spheres did not even reach full operation – and that, recently, private partnerships with the government of the State of Rio demobilized field hospitals.
Municipal beds and rates
The municipal network has 881 beds for Covid-19. Of this total, 251 are ICU beds. The number of specialized beds in the network is greater than the demand for hospitalizations for treatment of the disease.
The occupancy rate of ICU beds for Covid-19 in the SUS network – which includes beds in municipal, state and federal units – in the municipality is 71%. The occupancy rate in ward beds is 58%.
It is important to highlight that the municipal network did not close any ICU beds.
Hospitalizations
In the municipal network units, there are 476 hospitalized patients, 214 of whom are in the ICU.
The SUS network in the capital has 805 people hospitalized in specialized beds, 375 of which are in the ICU.
There is no waiting list, as there are beds for all patients included in the regulation system.
Across the entire SUS network in Metropolitan Region 1 – which encompasses the capital and municipalities in Baixada Fluminense – 49 people are in the process of being transferred to Covid-19 beds. Of this total, 11 are in the ICU.
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