Will the Colombian intensive care units collapse due to the COVID-19 pandemic?

In countries with limited resources, a relative, but particularly absolute increase in the number of patients requiring ICU may overcome existing infrastructures [3,4]. The trend shows that a still increasing daily number of new cases (Fig. 1), but from the total, 1807 cases (22.7%) have recovered (negative follow-up RT-PCR) and 358 (4.5%) have died. The MoH has proposed a four-phase plan including an amplification of the installed capacity (releasing 50% of the ICU beds, to make 2650 beds available) (phase 1), optimize the installed capacity (conversion of 2500 intermediate care units to ICU providing mechanical ventilation) (phase 2), extension of the installed capacity (creation of 2500 new ICU) (phase 3), and the critical extension (with 2,176 additional new ICU) (phase 4), to finally have 9826 ICU beds (an increase of 371%).