Health

Zonkeys Auditorium could return to being an auxiliary hospital during the winter season

This unit concluded its operations a month ago because of the few patients it was receiving

Photo by: Apoyemos a Tijuana

By Nancy Alcalá2020-11-04T23:18:00+00:00

Due to the approaching winter season, and the response that has been observed by the population regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the preventive measures that should be followed, Secretary of Health Alonso Perez Rico commented during his daily update that the Zonkeys Auditorium as an auxiliary hospital is being reconsidered, as it was done in the beginning.

"Both the Zonkeys' stadium and the Tijuana Albergue at this moment are already being reconsidered in order to have them as a strategic reserve of beds for the coming winter season in Baja California," said Perez Rico this Tuesday.

For the time being, this unit does not have any patients, since last October 1st the organization Apoyemos a Tijuana (Let's Support Tijuana) informed that this auxiliary hospital would conclude its operations because of a lack of patients.

In turn, both on October 1st and the 7th of the same month, this Auditorium was disinfected in order to be ready to host any activity, as reported in their official media.

On the other hand, another of the auxiliary units, Plan N3 of the army, is about to end since they only have 4 patients, but as mentioned by the Secretary, once they finish with these cases they will be preparing for the next wave.

On the other hand, the Secretary of Health mentioned that the ISSSTE and ISSSTECALI, which currently have 79% and 63.30% hospital availability respectively, will again be designated as safe hospitals.

"We have to prepare ourselves for what is coming in the winter season, we have to prepare ourselves with the procurement of supplies, personal protection equipment, medications to sedate patients, medications to keep them ventilated and everything that is required and which we have already spent in April-May for this season of patients. We do not want to have patients in our hospitals; we do not want them to be full, but we have to start preparing ourselves. That is why one of the strategies is to call these hospitals COVID-free," Dr. Perez Rico indicates.

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