Importancia del área de hospitalización de salud mental en el Hospital Carlos Andrade Marín durante el período 2020-2021

Abstract

Abstract: At the beginning of 2020 and during 2021, the pandemic called COVID 19 took place. In this period, there were countless human losses around the world. The confinement, which occurred in order to protect life, brought with it, the radical change of the modus vivendi of the families in the country. It produced stress, uncertainty, anxiety, aggression, due to the news of bodies found in streets, and misinformation regarding the management of patients at hospitals and at the morgue, There were no attention in hospitals to pathologies unrelated to the virus, because thepicture presented by COVID 19, presented an increase in the mortality of people with comorbidities, despite the increase of patients with psychopathologies, Carlos Andrade Marin Hospital, (HCAM) during this period, the Psychiatric Hospitalization area was closed.The present research seeks to describe the importance of the psychiatry hospitalization area within the HCAM. From the data obtained, it is observed that the Mental Health service represents the service with the highest demand within the Hospital, which evidences the felt need and confidence of the user to be attended within this health center.