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Field hospitals continue to be enabled in Madrid to overcome the coronavirus crisis and serve as relief for centers collapsed by the epidemic. If first it was that of Ifema and then came that of the Alcalá Hospital, now the location is the Gregorio Marañón Hospital where the Army has already started conditioning work on Monday.

This morning, the military have already set up the first tent in a space that is expected to accommodate around 80 health care posts for those patients who come to the emergency room of the Madrid medical center, according to the hospital itself. There, care will be provided by both health personnel from Gregorio Marañón himself and professionals from the organization Médicos del Mundo, who will serve as support.

According to the deadlines that the center itself manages, the intention is that this makeshift hospital, which will have seven tents, is fully assembled at the end of this afternoon so that it can start operating "as soon as possible" and thus "alleviate discharge frequented by the Emergency Service, "say sources from the Gregorio Marañón Hospital.

From Médicos del Mundo, who will help in the management of this center, its emergency coordinator, Helena Sainz, stressed that our country faces "a great health epidemic and we must act with an emergency mentality", reorganizing resources, assigning priorities and adopting demanding infection prevention and control measures in which the organization will collaborate. "We know how to do it because we have intervened in epidemics throughout the world, from cholera in Haiti to Ebola in Sierra Leone," he argued.

The situation with respect to the coronavirus is especially critical in the Community of Madrid, where 3,392 deceased patients are already registered, according to the latest official data. This represents 45.6% of deaths from the virus in Spain and 310 in the last 24 hours. Although this figure implies 15 fewer than the 325 registered on Sunday, and therefore the second consecutive day with a drop in the number of deaths.

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