Our health workers 👨🏻⚕️👩🏿⚕️👨🏾⚕️👩🏽⚕️ are also facing mounting challenges as the lifesaving supplies they rely on… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
But based on how COVID is spreading, we estimate we’ll need 20,000 doctors 🩺 and more than 30,000 nurses 👨🏻⚕️👩🏿⚕️… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Also, some 400 Emergency Medical Teams 🦺 and alternative medical care sites were set up, helping our countries expa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
PAHO has helped deploy 26 emergency medical teams 🦺 across 23 countries in the Americas 🌎 to provide specialized ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The rise in hospitalizations 🏥 has meant that our health workers 👨🏽⚕️👩🏿⚕️ are working overtime and juggling more… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In Chile and Peru, 95% of ICU beds are occupied, the majority by COVID patients.
Buenos Aires, where 96% of ICU b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Across our region 🌎, nearly 80% of our intensive care units are filled with COVID patients, and the numbers are eve… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
But until we have enough vaccines to protect everyone, our health systems 🏥 and the patients that rely on them rema… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
More than 140 million 👵🏾🧔🏻 have been fully 💉 against COVID in the Americas. @WHO recent approval of the Sinopharm v… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Our health systems 🏥 are challenged to care for an influx in COVID patients as they scale vaccination 💉 efforts.
