Earlier in the news, we shared the latest update from the Ministry of Health about the 67 new COVID positive patients that the ministry's countrywide surveillance of the pandemic detected yesterday.
At news time tonight, Belize's total number of confirmed cases is at 2,310. Just over 14 hundred of those patients have recovered, but there are still 849 active cases that Ministry is monitoring. And, if any of those 849 patients should fall into medical distress, they will be unable to seek healthcare at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. That's because the national referral hospital's isolation unit is currently at max capacity.
Yesterday, the Director of Health Services was asked about it by a viewer of the Ask the Experts Webcast, and here's how he responded to that inquiry:
Dr. Marvin Manzanero - Director of Health Services
"Current situation at Karl Heusner with hospitalized COVID-19 cases and suspect cases. [There are] 8 confirmed cases at Karl Heusner, so their unit is now full. 2 of those patients are intubated. The other 6 is are either on a high flow of oxygen and not requiring ventilation for now. That's what we have at Karl Heusner. One of those 2 patients ventilated earlier, we were told, is very unstable. So, he's not looking good. To us, it's not looking that good."
