São Paulo will use Pacaembu and Anhembi as field hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients.
The Pacaembu stadium will be covered and will have 200 beds installed. At Anhembi, there will be 1.800 beds.
Sputnik - The mayor of São Paulo, Bruno Covas (PSDB) announced this Friday (20) that he will implement field hospitals in the Pacaembu stadium and in Anhembi.
According to the mayor, the field hospitals They will have a partnership with the Albert Einstein Hospital. These will be low-complexity beds, and the facilities will be air-conditioned. The Pacaembu stadium will be covered and will have 200 beds. The Anhembi hospital will have 1.800 beds.
"We will adapt these two spaces, one of them provided by the new concessionaire of Pacaembu, which will be ready in two weeks. The 1.800 parking spaces at Anhembi will be ready in up to three weeks," said Covas. quoted by the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo.
The municipal health secretary, Edson Aparecido, said that the locations already They will be able to receive care. in the next two or three weeks.
"We will set up large field hospitals to house people who are not yet severely ill in our hospitals, so we can admit those who need intensive care. It's a new phase. These are initiatives with an enormous impact from a public health standpoint," he stated.
The São Paulo City Hall also announced that... The city will have 490 new hospital beds. of ICU. Currently, the municipality has 507 beds.