Portugal’s Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) Epidemic is spreading rapidly, with a record high of 293 new deaths in a single day on the 27th. Germany sent military medical experts to Portugal to clarify the current development of the epidemic and try to provide assistance.
According to Reuters, Portugal has accumulated 668,951 infections and 11,305 deaths so far, with a record high of 293 new deaths in a single day on the 27th, and the capital city of Lisbon is flooded with a large number of martial lung patients, facing a crisis of insufficient oxygen supply pressure. The hospital has used up two-thirds of its beds, and the military hospital has also begun to change the cafeteria into a ward.
Reuters pointed out that on the 27th more than 20 ambulances parked at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon (Santa Maria Hospital), hoping to have beds, a spokesman said that the hospital is currently trying to treat patients, but there is only one critical care bed left, and there are only 10 available beds in other wards. Rui Santos, head of nursing at Fernando Fonseca Hospital in Lisbon, pointed out to reporters that 53 patients were transferred out on the evening of the 26th to avoid the collapse of the oxygen system, and another 32 patients were transferred to three other hospitals on the 27th.
Portugal in the first wave of the epidemic, the situation is much better than other European countries, but now Portugal’s 7-day average daily new patients and deaths per million are the highest in the world. A spokesman for the Portuguese Ministry of Defense confirmed a report published in the evening of the 27th by the German magazine Der Spiegel that Germany has sent military medical experts to try to clarify the current situation in Portugal and to confirm what feasible and necessary support should be provided, while local Portuguese media reports mentioned that German military medical experts have already gone to the Hernando Fonseca Hospital and will then go to other medical centers. Local media reports mention that German military Specialists have already been to the Hernando Fonseca Hospital and will be going to other medical centers.
Portuguese health Minister Lacerda Sales noted that the government is seeking additional assistance from European partners. Portuguese Medical Director Miguel Guimaraes said that the problem in Portuguese hospitals is not a lack of oxygen, but the inability to provide sufficient oxygen pressure to so many patients at the same Time. He said: “Especially in Lisbon hospitals, they are already under too much pressure at the moment, this is called ‘disaster Medicine‘”.
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