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In at least the last three months, more than 30 patients at UC San Diego Health facilities have had treatment delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. While Southern California as a region grapples with 0% ICU capacity, medical professionals are focusing their efforts on those who are the sickest and need immediate care.
“Really, it comes down to a point where you can’t do a transplant because there’s actually no place to put the patients after the transplant,” said Kristin Mekeel, a UC San Diego Health surgeon. “There is no ICU bed available and that’s really the issue that we’re getting into.”
The El Centro Regional Medical Center is shown in this May 20 photo. AP Photo/Gregory Bull Gregory Bull
EL CENTRO â On a day state officials warned that intensive care unit capacity for the Southern Region, including Imperial County, has continued to drop dangerously low, El Centro Regional Medical Center announced it was getting a bit of relief.
ECRMC said announced Monday the arrival of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesâ Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) to provide support during the current surge of COVID-19 patients.
At the request of the state of California, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services deployed a team of medical professionals from its National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), the hospital said. The 33-member DMAT includes physicians and other advanced practitioners, pharmacists, nurses, respiratory therapists, paramedics, as well as safety and administrative specialists to provide surge su
Imperial County: local hospitals ready to receive COVID-19 vaccine
Both hospitals running low on intensive care unit beds
EL CENTRO, Calif.(KYMA, KECY) - Imperial County Public Health Officer Stephen Munday said the county has several freezers ready for the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it comes to our area.
“We have already been meeting and preparing all this behind the scene stuff. To make sure we were ready so that the instant it hits our community we are ready to start using it, again once it’s approved it, we’ll receive our doses, we’ll get it distributed because our hospitals already have the necessary freezers required,” said Stephen Munday, Imperial County Public Health Officer.