The health system measures put into place in El Salvador to contain the spread of COVID-19 are:
* June 21: A new hospital wing was inaugurated in San Salvador with 400 intensive care units (adding to the around 150 operational intensive care beds). Two further stages are in construction, bringing the total to 1 000 ICUs and 1 000 acute care beds. Total expenditure in the new hospital is estimated to 75 million USD. Other major refurbishements in hospitals have been carried out worth around 35 million USD. The Ministry of Public Health has received until end of May 35.4 million USD in additional funding for purchasing inputs and equipment.
* May 7 : Face mask wearing is compulsory for those allowed to circulate.
* March 13: a State of Emergency has been declared. A broad package of measures have been announced. They include increasing resources for the health sector to facilitate the acquisition of medical equipment, the construction and improvement of hospital facilities, enlarging testing capacity and providing liquidity to the hospital network.
* A temporary hospital is being built in the facilities of the Conference Centre in San Salvador, with the aim to house 300 intensive care units and 1000 hospital beds (announced cost: 70 million USD).
* 800 hotel rooms have been habilitated as care facilities to confine COVID-19 cases not requiring hospital care.
* As of 8 April: 105 quarantine (“contention”) centres have been habilitated to house persons undergoing compulsory quarantine (e.g.: those arriving from outside the country).
The published information can be found here
