{"id":238479,"date":"2021-05-05T09:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=238479"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:18:32","slug":"coronavirus-cuban-health-authorities-detect-institutional-failures-that-affect-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/coronavirus\/coronavirus-cuban-health-authorities-detect-institutional-failures-that-affect-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Cuban health authorities detect institutional failures that affect mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the inspections that led to the high lethality of the <\/span>coronavirus<\/span><\/a> registered in April, when 229 Cubans lost their lives to COVID-19, the Ministry of Public Health identified a set of problems that directly affect the control of the disease and that \u201cgo beyond the context of transmission,\u201d according to Minister of Public Health Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Portal Miranda.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Portal Miranda, these problems have to do with deficiencies such as \u201cdelays in the arrival of patients to the system,\u201d \u201cfailures in classification,\u201d \u201chigh-risk patients who go to low-risk centers,\u201d delay in the detection of \u201csymptoms of aggravation in admitted patients,\u201d as well as \u201cpatients who are admitted with decompensated basic pathologies or become decompensated with the disease complicating their clinical management.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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During this Monday\u2019s meeting of the temporary workgroup for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus, and as seen in <\/span>a television report<\/span><\/a>, the minister also referred to \u201ca group of actions that has to do with patients\u2019 stay in intensive care\u201d and that point \u201cto opportunistic germs that also generate complications.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In this sense, last week a tweet from the President of the Republic, Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel Berm\u00fadez, reported that he had \u201cordered a review of the work in the ICUs and delving into all the causes of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Cuba.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The fatality rate in April reached 0.73% and the territories with the highest number of deaths were Havana and Matanzas, in both cases related to the high incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants. Camag\u00fcey was the third territory where more people lost their lives as a result of the disease in the fourth month of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

This Monday\u2019s meeting was headed by D\u00edaz-Canel, and member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, who, given the current epidemiological scenario, \u201cdrew attention to common events such as the low perception of risk due to part of the population, the failure to identify all the contacts of confirmed cases, the ineffectiveness of the active search for symptomatic cases and other issues that lead to indiscipline and violations of the provisions,\u201d <\/span>the presidency\u2019s website<\/span><\/a> published.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coronavirus in Cuba: patients in intensive care reach 115 in one day<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n