The Siglo 21 hospital in San Francisco de Macoris, the leading private medical center in the city, celebrated on 21 April 2020 the discharge of the last coronavirus patient in intensive care. The hospital had been overwhelmed by cases since 12 March when San Francisco de Macoris became the first Dominican city to experience community spreading of the virus.
This province has been the largest outbreak of infection in the country, and the first to record community transmission of the virus. For Bulletin #33 of the Ministry of Public Health, no new cases of Covid-19 are reported in San Francisco de Macoris and Duarte province.
Dr. Ramón Mena, spokesman for Grupo Medico Unido that owns the clinic, said that the ICU area would be subject to a thorough sanitization now that all patients have been discharged.
“The important thing is that patients receive treatment before they reach the critical stage,” says the doctor, explaining that the hospital had treated 107 patients for the new coronavirus. He said that those who died had arrived in very critical state.
The doctor estimates that the number of patients admitted and treated for the disease in May will be lower than those registered in March and the first week of April, when the most critical part of COVID-19 was concentrated.
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Listin Diario
22 April 2020