The Current Situation of Morbidity and Mortality in Covid-19 Positive Patients of The General Teaching Hospital "Ambato"

Abstract

All sectors of society have been involved in the health emergency, which as of January 2020, the WHO cataloged a new pandemic, discovering a new viral agent called SARS-CoV-2, producing the disease COVID-19 , a multifactorial disease with a different etiology in each patient but with marked pictures of; severe acute respiratory distress syndrome with community-acquired pneumonia and thromboembolic complications, in addition to having more serious complications in elderly patients and with the presence of comorbidities. Currently in Ecuador, to date 801,180 positive cases and 35,040 deaths have been reported. To give a specific focus on morbidity and mortality in the city of Ambato, the research developed a qualitative analytical, descriptive and cross-sectional method, giving a perspective through statistics with the report of positive cases described in the city, the variation in age of the patients, their associated comorbidities, complications during their stay in the COVID-19 area of the Ambato General Teaching Hospital and the report of deaths,  these data duly specified in the hospital records and detailed through figures and tabulations that expose the reality of COVID-19. 19 in the city of Ambato.