Over 1,200 persons were hospitalised with COVID-19 at the Infectious Disease Hospital at Liliendaal for the first six months of 2021.
The statistic was disclosed to Sunday Stabroek by the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Head of Strategic Planning and Communications, Chelauna Providence.
According to the data shared with this newspaper, a total of 1,231 persons were hospitalised in the regular isolation ward and the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the facility between January and June, 2021.
In total, 915 patients were admitted to isolation wards as they were not in need of critical care. The month of May saw the highest number of persons being admitted to those wards at 214. In January 76 persons were placed in isolation at the
facility, 118 in February, 184 in March, 179 in April and 144 in June.
For the ICU, 316 persons were admitted in the six-month period, with May seeing the highest number of persons needing critical care at 85. For January, 23 persons passed through the ICU, 25 in February, 45 in March, 66 in April and 72 in June.
These numbers are significantly higher than that of the previous year, as this newspaper had reported last September that a total of 98 persons had been treated at the COVID-19 ICU since its set up at the beginning of the pandemic in March to September 3, 2020. At that time 85 of those persons required critical care while admitted.
COVID-19 care and ICU operations were officially moved to the Ocean View facility in late November last year, thereby allowing for more capacity at the country’s COVID-19 ICU.
Meanwhile, a total of 228 persons who were hospitalized for COVID-19 from January to June, 2021 died as a result of the virus. Of that number, 201 were patients of the ICU while the other 27 had been in the isolation wards.
The breakdown of the monthly figures shared with this newspaper showed that some 11 persons who were admitted to ICU in January died while 14 succumbed in February, 24 in March, 37 in April, 59 in May and 56 in June.
This reveals that from the month of January to the month of May a steady increase of infections have been reported with more persons requiring mild and critical care. The month of May has also been noted as the one which saw the highest number of cases being recorded for a month since the initial outbreak last March as well as being the month with the highest number of deaths reported.
