As part of his daily report, this Monday, Health Secretary Alonso Pérez Rico, reported that hospital occupancy in Baja California decreased to 77 percent, and there are 122 beds available and 119 ventilators.

"It decreased because of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), they are reporting that they have less than 70 percent hospital occupancy, that is always good news," he mentioned.

At the moment, 656 people were hospitalized in the entity after being confirmed with COVID-19, while 199 are intubated due to this disease as well.

Of the hospitals that treat patients with coronavirus and belong to the Ministry of Health, Tijuana's General Hospital is the busiest with 95.11 percent, where there are 175 occupied beds and 34 intubated patients.

In the case of IMSS hospitals in Baja California, Hospital General Regional 1, also located in this city, is the one with the highest occupancy rate, with 68.56 percent, reporting 181 occupied beds and 18 people on ventilators.

Pérez Rico mentioned that today Tijuana's General Hospital is busier than Mexicali's, since the latter has an outdoor ambulatory hospital allowing it to increase its installed capacity.

In general, the hospital occupation of the hospitals of the Ministry of Health is 85.41 percent, while that of the IMSS hospitals is 68.57 percent.

The doctor reminded us that the situation in the hospitals is very dynamic, so both the number of available beds and therefore the hospital occupancy is constantly changing.

"When I report 86 percent of hospital occupation and I only have 6 beds, 10 beds, 15 beds, let's remember, I have shifts that attend 30 patients per shift and we hospitalize 50 percent, that's 15 patients, and if I have 6 beds then it's 100 percent full. At the same time I am discharging from the floor, from the emergency room, the admissions to a hospital are so dynamic that we cannot see them as if they were already full".

And he assured that these issues are seen "all day, every day, every shift" and that they are not just sitting around doing nothing.

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