Doctors have had to remove the sewage with buckets because it has reached the floor of the patients’ beds.
Officials from the San Borja Hospital, located in the commune of Santiago, denounced the critical health situation that is being experienced in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) due to sewage leak within the health facility.
As indicated to Meganoticias, the senator of the Socialist Party, Luis Castro, “here there are sewage leaks that directly affect the people who are in Intensive Care, people on dialysis, invasive procedures and people with cancer.”
“Poop is falling inside a health facility that serves thousands of people. Patience has already been exhausted. Two days ago, the doctors had to take out with buckets, completely wet with sewage, the amount of liquid that had slipped through the electrical circuits, and then, reaching the floor of the beds of both residents and patients,” Castro said.
Sewage leaks at the San Borja Hospital
Meanwhile, doctor Francisca Ríos reported that “My patients are not safe. I cannot give certainty of safety because water falls, sometimes they tell me clean, but “It’s water with poop.”
“Last night we had to continue receiving patients, and after poop rained on my head, I continued receiving patients in both the ICU and ICUlamented the professional.
Along with this, Dr. Viviana Vallejos added that “we are having sewage leaks, and We don’t need to grow crops or anything, because you can smell the smell of poop in our residence.”
“The most serious thing is that the leaks come through the electrical ducts, and let’s not forget that we already had a very serious fire in this hospital in 2021, and that we are still suffering the consequences,” he lamented.
“The teams are exhausted”
In the midst of this unsustainable health situation, from the Medical College of Chile (Colmed), they stated to radio ADN that “The teams are exhausted. We dare to say that the San Borja Hospital is in the most critical situation in Santiago.”
“Doctors have warned that, if safety conditions for patients are not improved, They will be forced to close the intensive care unit“, they assured.