{"id":12485,"date":"2020-04-07T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/?p=12485"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:19:02","slug":"latam-hospitals-show-decreases-in-ventilator-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/ghi-analysis\/latam-hospitals-show-decreases-in-ventilator-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"LatAm Hospitals Show Decreases in Ventilator Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Through HospiScope, Global\nHealth Intelligence (GHI) tracks counts for a wide range of equipment types in\nLatin American hospitals. At the end of 2019, we completed our data collection\nand verification for hospitals in 14 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get a sense of the amount of\nventilators on hand in Latin American hospitals to deal with the coronavirus\ncrisis, we compared the amount of ventilators in the region\u2019s hospitals in 2017\nto the amount registered in December 2019, when we completed our verification\nof data for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see in the chart\nbelow, in that period, the vast majority of Latin American hospitals showed\nsignificant decreases in their ventilator counts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ventilators_grafico_01_en_01.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12511\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The only country that posted an\nincrease in ventilators for that time period, was Brazil, with a 30% uptick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also looked at countries\nwith directly comparable data between 2018 and 2019, and in doing so observed\nthat all countries we tracked all posted drops in ventilator counts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ventilators_grafico_02_en_01.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12514\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the current crisis, this\nis of major concern, suggesting that hospitals may not be as well-equipped as\nthey should be to handle patients severely affected by the coronavirus to the\npoint where they need ventilators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For manufacturers of medical\nequipment, this could represent a significant opportunity and it&#8217;s likely that\nthese companies are experiencing a surge in orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, there could be an\nopportunity for other equipment manufacturers who can shift to producing\nventilators, provided, of course, that the regulatory environments in specific\ncountries allow for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/contact\/\">Please contact us if your organization requires additional data on specific Latin American hospitals or hospitals in specific countries to assess their readiness for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/a> Our HospiScope database tracks data for more than 19,000 hospitals across the region in 17 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent data from Global Health Intelligence suggests Latin American hospitals may have fewer key resources on hand to combat the coronavirus crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ghi-analysis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29849,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions\/29849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalhealthintelligence.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}