There are not enough beds to facilitate persons in the parallel health care system.
Principal Medical Officer – Institutions Maryam Abdool Richards says that unfortunately at this time, demand for beds has exceeded supply.
She made the disclosure at the Ministry of Health’s Covid Media Update this morning.
On Saturday the Minister of Health Terrance Deyalsingh said that the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and High Dependency Units (HDUs) at the nation’s COVID-19 treatment facilities are approaching capacity as more severely and critically ill patients are being admitted.
With an upward trend being observed in admissions, Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh is warning that once the threshold is reached, doctors will be forced to decide who receives treatment. It’s quite likely a death sentence for those who don’t make the cut.
Dr Abdool Richards said this morning that the situation has caused grave concern as the trend means that lives are at risk.
She said that while there has been an attempt to address the situation the situation still remains grave.
She also said that 96% of patients in the ICU’s across Trinidad at Hospitals are not fully vaccinated.
She also explained that there are Covid positive patients in Accident and Emergency awaiting ICU in the parallel health care system.
She appealed to the population to get vaccinated so that they could mitigate the need to go to the ICU should they contract the virus.
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