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Judi Lynn

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Thu Apr 4, 2013, 05:25 PM Apr 2013

Bogota's hospitals "have collapsed": health secretary .

Bogota's hospitals "have collapsed": health secretary .
Thursday, 04 April 2013 08:02 Johnny Crisp

The secretary of health for Colombia's capital of Bogota on Thursday announced that the city's hospitals are amid financial collapse.

“All the emergency services in all of the clinics in Bogota have completely collapsed,” said Health Secretary Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, in a radio interview.

The situation has left the Colombian capital struggling to deal with incoming patients across the city. The director for Bogota's Santa Clara hospital, Hugo Armando, said that while all new patients had received treatment, they were nearing their capacity.

"We have infrastructure problems, we don't have enough beds...we are ready to care for 11 patients, but if 100 arrive we do not have sufficient means to provide for them, said Armando.

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Continued overcrowding in hospitals in Bogotá Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. Continued overcrowding in hospitals in Bogotá
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 03:07 AM
Apr 2013

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Continued overcrowding in hospitals in Bogotá
04/04/2013
Emergency services, delivery of citations and released to the drug claim in Bogotá became chaotic crisis did hit bottom in entities as Saludcoop, Capital Health, the Hospital and the Hospital Tunal Santa Clara. In various paths RCN Radio, during nights and early mornings, it became clear that the health system in the nation's capital worsened as district ombudsman himself admitted, Ricardo Canyon.

After reports of the personality of Bogotá on the overcrowding of over 1,300% in the emergency department of the Hospital Santa Clara, today were collected for all patients who were lying on the floor, sleeping bags and blankets on. Yet saturation continues in that place where they still remain a hundred patients, when there is only capacity for 11 of them. The majority of patients waiting in makeshift stretchers or chairs not suitable for your attention. hospital manager of Santa Clara, Hugo Armando Mendez , said the problem is they can not refuse patients who arrive at the emergency, but that can not be treated there because they must be sent to specialized institutions, which requires authorization by the patient's EPS, which It may take several days. "We can not refuse any patient and we have to value it and stabilize it, and then depending on your illness must refer you to another hospital and that depends on the EPS which in many cases does not authorize or delay the transfer of the patient. What saturates the ED that is only suitable to serve 11 patients per day " , said the manager of the Hospital Santa Clara. addition, the official stressed that `s EPS owed ​​more than 60 billion pesos in addition to this hospital have infrastructure problems, as their facilities date back 70 years and can not be changed because they are architectural heritage. indicated that it is trying to acquire a nearby lot where they could build a new hospital to serve a larger number of patients and improve health care. hospital emergency Tunal 400% working emergency coordinator Hospital Tunal, Marcela Peña, warned that this unit has an overpopulation of 4 times the installed capacity for the hospital that serves about 40% poorest population of Bogotá "We have capacity for 22 patients and currently have 98 patients in the emergency department" . "Many of these patients require hospitalization specialties third and fourth levels of the EPS should be located on your network provider, but they have not succeeded " . Meanwhile Hospital manager Tunal, Omar Augusto Silva, blamed the health insurance services by the collapse of emergencies "is that we must EPS over 45 billion pesos Bogotá and hospitals owe more than 350 billion pesos, then outside of that we have to take care of patients and give them face, EPS do not pay us " . The ombudsman of Bogota, Ricardo barrel, made ​​available to the Health Superintendency personality 24 hours service that enables constant monitoring of the health centers in Bogota.
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