Casos de doenças respiratórias crescem 56% em hospital infantil de Florianópolis

101 children required intensive care; 96 infants under 1 year hospitalized with 59 needing pediatric ICU; pediatric and neonatal ICU units at 100% and 90% capacity respectively.

In Florianópolis, the children's hospital that has long stood as a refuge for Santa Catarina's youngest and most fragile is now straining under a wave of respiratory illness that no single pathogen can claim alone. Between February and April, emergency visits surged fifty-six percent, filling intensive care beds with infants who have barely begun their lives. The crisis is not without remedy — vaccines exist, they are free, and they are waiting — yet only one in four eligible children has received one, leaving the distance between prevention and suffering uncomfortably wide.

Casos de doenças respiratórias crescem 56% em hospital infantil de Florianópolis

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