Valencian hospitals will continue to be closed to visitors until further notice. That is the decision that the Ministry of Health has taken in response to Covid-19.
According to the new regulations issued this week, visits continue to be prohibited in all hospitals, as well as volunteer activities despite the fact that hospital pressure due to Covid-19 has begun to decrease.
The prohibitions are the same ones that have been applied since the end of December, when the sixth wave of coronavirus began to rise, and sought to “shield” hospitals so that they did not become a focus of virus expansion. The department of health maintains that only one person can accompany those hospitalised (and it is recommended that they have the complete vaccination schedule).
In addition to extreme control of access to hospitals, the Health Department has chosen to maintain prudence and has not lifted the orders that were given in December to cancel surgical operations that were not a priority but needed to occupy an ICU.
The order was given to allow intensive care units that could assume the overload due to the arrival of Covid-19 patients (the vast majority of people who had not been vaccinated) without having to make room for people operated on for “non-priority” problems. Surgeries that are a priority and need ICU still have to be referred. All those that are oncological are still being done.
In this wave, and thanks to the vaccines, the maximum peak of hospitalised patients so far has been 1,912 people, the maximum figure registered on Monday 24 January. The ICU has reached 205 admitted. At this time and with figures from Wednesday, in Valencian hospitals there are 1,756 patients admitted with Covid, 174 of them in the ICU.
