Redesign of the health system
The enormous pressure on hospitals due to the COVID-19 pandemic should
spark reflection on whether these institutions should be the first
resort when people are sick. With adequate means of infection control,
certain locations such as outpatient hospitals or hospital
rehabilitation centers could be the initial destination for COVID-19
patients who have been sent to hospitals during the first phase of the
pandemic. This is already being done in other countries such as the USA,
where many service and care provider organizations and some community
clinic systems are diversifying in this way13.