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“The situation in Thessaloniki It is very difficult, you need calm and immediate support from medical and nursing staffHe said CNN Greece the Matina pagoni, president of the Athens – Piraeus hospital doctors, shortly before the decision on further measures.
Ms. Pagoni agreed in favor of a universal blockade -an analog of March- and strict restriction of movement in Thessaloniki for at least 15-20 days, in order to stop the exponential dispersion of the young coronavirus.
Speaking about the resilience of hospitals, he noted that the situation in the ICU is moving towards plenitude, noting that the doctors and nurses in Thessaloniki face great difficulties in trying to treat cases.
“The Ministry of Health must immediately strengthen hospitals with medical and nursing personnel to deal with the situation,” he emphasized.
In terms of schools, estimated as for the moment it is not considered necessary to suspend its operationAs is clear from the data so far, there is no worrisome spread of the coronavirus.
What will Vassilis Kikilias suggest to the Prime Minister?
the last 48 hours has been recorded 1,288 new cases of Covid-19 in Thessaloniki, with the Minister of Health, Vassilis Kikilias, suggesting the taking of additional measures, as announced when leaving the AHEPA hospital.
“A difficult meeting is over. We will support our doctors, our nurses, our healthcare system, our hospitals. Unfortunately, a few have been in danger and are directly endangering everyone’s life and health. The coronavirus epidemic is it is spreading rapidly in Thessaloniki. I understand fatigue, I understand fatigue, I understand stress, anxiety and world problems, but public health is above all else. The government sounded many alarms early. I repeat, some did not listen. “We are obliged at this time to limit the spread of the coronavirus and protect public health, which is why I will suggest to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that he take further measures to limit the coronavirus in Thessaloniki,” he said.
The measures under consideration
New stricter measures to Thessaloniki, what includes curfew starting at 8 or 9 at night and travel ban outside the prefecture, but the mayor of the city also announced in advance, Konstantinos Zervas.
Speaking to SKAI, the mayor expressed his recognition that “We will not escape from universal confinement” while describing the current situation in the co-capital, the war.
“We are at war now and we have to see today how to deal with evil. The measures that have been taken take time until they begin to bear fruit, however, given the large number of cases, we will also have to take stricter measures. I have already suggested Curfew earlier, at 8-9 pm, but also the ban on travel in and out of the prefecture. It is not a universal blockade, commerce will be open, services will be open, SMS will not be required for traffic, ”said Mr. Zervas.
The goal, as Zervas emphasized, is to prevent its closure. Beach, when wanting to describe the overcrowding phenomena that are recorded every night in the squares and outdoors, he pointed out that “every day we collect 3-4 times greater quantities trash in public areas “.
The number of new infections in Thessaloniki is observed to remain high level, since 449 new cases were detected on Sunday, November 1, 839 on Saturday, October 31, and 530 cases on Friday, October 30, compared to 84 cases on October 26. In this context, it has already been activated by the Ministry of Health. Emergency plan in order to increase the capacity of the NSS to meet the growing needs of the region. Thus, 43 new ICU-COVID beds were secured in order to increase the capacity of the NSS in Thessaloniki.
More specifically, 8 ICU-COVID beds are added to the General Hospital “Agios Pavlos”, 10 beds to the General Hospital “G. Gennimatas”, 10 beds in PGNTH AHEPA, 4 beds in 424 Military Hospital, 6 beds in GNTH “G. Papanikolaou “and 5 beds at Halkidiki General Hospital.
