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The country’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity within the parallel healthcare system has not improved this week, and remains at near-full. Principal Medical Officer of Institutions, Dr. Maryam Abdool-Richards, noted at yesterday’s virtual Press Conference (Wednesday 27th October 2021) with the Ministry of Health, that there is one (1) more ICU bed remaining. She first reported that ICU bed capacity was almost full on Monday (25th October 2021), stating that fifty-one (51) out of fifty-two (52) ICU beds at Hospitals in Trinidad were occupied. She said the occupancy level remains the same at yesterday’s Press Conference and noted that, of the fifty-one (51) patients in ICU, fifty (50) were not fully vaccinated. Dr. Abdool-Richards also said in the Accident & Emergency (A&E) departments of the traditional healthcare system, there were twenty-four (24) critically ill patients awaiting transfer into the parallel healthcare system, with seven (7) requiring ICU care. She said all seven (7) patients needing ICU care were not fully vaccinated. “These seven persons who are our relatives, our neighbours, our friends, require ICU care now because of their clinical status or how ill they presented to the A&E department. And our Doctors have noticed that persons are presenting to the A&E departments very ill, in a state that they require ventilation and other supportive treatments in the A&E department. And in some cases, they may be too unstable to actually move in the short term,” she said. On Monday, Dr. Abdool-Richards reported that nine (9) of the twenty-seven (27) patients waiting to be transferred from A&E departments to the parallel healthcare system needed ICU care. All nine (9) patients were not fully vaccinated. Responding to a question on Wednesday, she noted that there are currently eighty-seven (87) ventilators in the parallel healthcare system. “Of course we have some ventilators that are operational at the facilities and we do have back-up or contingency plan ventilators,” she said. This is a developing story - refresh this page for updates. [Source: Trinidad Express]
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