University Hospital in Sharjah (UHS) on Monday announced it has achieved higher success rates in treating COVID-19 patients compared to the global average.
During the first quarter of 2022, the UHS received many critical COVID-19 patients over the age of 70, and it was able to achieve success rates that exceed the global average rates in intensive care units (ICUs).
“The death rate was 1.73 per cent of the admitted cases in general, including COVID-19 cases. As for the very critical cases, the death rate among them were expected to reach 61.31 per cent [globally] according to the SAPSII Score global criterion,” said Dr Mamoun Al Zubair, senior consultant of Intensive Care Medicine at UHS.
