Over the past week, Aragon has recorded 834 emergency cases and 226 hospitalizations due to influenza.

The incidence of influenza in Aragon (334.8 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants) for the fourth week in a row exceeds the epidemic threshold set this season at 59.6 cases. This is reflected in Epidemiological bulletin, published this Thursday, which shows the situation from January 8th to 14th. At that time, 834 people were treated in emergency services with this pathology, of which 226 people required hospitalization (which is 7.1% of the total).

Health officials are confident that the epidemic flu curve will soon reach its peak. Actually, incidence among adults may have stabilized although it is still very high among children aged 0 to 4 years (716.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants) and children aged 5 to 14 years (437.8). And while the vaccination campaign continues, this week it was already opened to the entire population, outside the currently recommended groups. The response is positive, as the Ministry of Health acknowledges: in the five health centers of Zaragoza, which are open in the afternoon from 15:00 to 17:00, the agendas are almost full.

Respiratory infections continue. putting a strain on hospital emergency services. According to the CSIF, this Thursday afternoon 50 patients were awaiting admission to the Miguel Servet University Hospital in Zaragoza.

In the morning, the Ministry of Health confirmed that there were two digestive patients who had been in the emergency department for 83 hours at the time and were expected to be discharged during the day. Another patient has already worked 81 hours, and another 52, both in psychiatry, due to a lack of beds. The Ministry of Health admitted on Wednesday that the system does not have enough beds for acute psychiatric patients. In total, Aragon has 107 hospital beds in public resources: 30 in Servete, 20 in Clínico, 24 in Royo Villanova, 21 in San Jorge and 12 in Obispo Polanco.

The ministry also reported that at around 11:00 this Thursday, there was another patient in the Servet Digestive Emergency Department who had been waiting for 71 hours. In this case, he was not admitted to the hospital not because there were not enough beds, but because he had to remain in the semi-critical area of ​​Servet’s emergency department under observation so that he could go up to the ward when his condition stabilized. In all cases, they clarified, “these are patients in an observation bed and They receive the same attention and supervision from appropriate specialists as if they were in the factory.“.