Caracterización de contagiados por COVID-19 en el Departamento del Atlántico

Carolina Bustamante Meléndez; Diego Amaris Rueda; Saadath Mora Piña; Alexander Troncoso Palacio

doi:10.17981/bilo.2.1.2020.5

Authors

Carolina Bustamante Meléndez Universidad de la Costa CUC, Barranquilla. (Colombia)
Diego Amaris Rueda Universidad de la Costa CUC, Barranquilla. (Colombia)
Saadath Mora Piña Universidad de la Costa CUC, Barranquilla. (Colombia)
Alexander Troncoso Palacio https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6034-695X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17981/bilo.2.1.2020.5

Keywords:

COVID-19, Resources, Municipalities, Collapse, Isolation

Abstract

When talking about COVID-19 in department of Atlántico, the structural deficit is evident, both economically, socially and culturally. It is a test for health system, but it also measures the ability of people to cope with change, in addition, it becomes a tireless battle to survive in austere situations. The objective of this article is to determine the degree of readiness of the Atlántico department to face the pandemic, from its ordinary inhabitants to the highest lines of the departmental power. Through this investigation, verification was made that the department did not it is not even prepared to serve 1% of the population; In the event that the number of infected people requiring hospital care reaches up to one in a hundred inhabitants, the health system would collapse. The Pareto diagram shows the number of people affected in each municipality. At end research it is concluded that the Atlántico department does not have sufficient availability to face the pandemic, because its capacity to attend hospitals and clinics is deficient.