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Marsin Servac, an ambulance driver in Warsaw, had to deliver oxygen to a colleague’s vehicle at 3 a.m., waiting 15 hours, parked at the entrance of a hospital, until the nurses picked up the patient he was transporting and difficulty.
Shortly after, Servac himself waited five hours in his ambulance, transporting an elderly patient with coronavirus symptoms until a bed could be found to place her.
“Very often, we just don’t have a place to deliver patients,” said the 35-year-old victim. “Not because hospitals do not want to collect them, they have no place to put them or isolate them,” he explained.
Poland today announced more than 27,000 new cases of Covid-19 and a total of almost half a million since the start of the pandemic earlier this year. So far 6,842 people have died.
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Servac said that before the pandemic, ambulances were called to pick up patients who were 15 minutes away, but now they are sending them to areas for 30 to 40 minutes. “And they take our calls 3 hours later,” he added.
In addition to the lack of beds, the victim complained that the lack of facilities to disinfect ambulances that are ready to pick up new patients was causing delays.
The Health Ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
Karol Bielsky, head of the Warsaw Meditrans ambulance service, confirmed that 4 or 5 ambulances were waiting outside hospitals for several hours. “It happens that a patient has to be transferred from one hospital to another, the situation is difficult,” he said, adding that no one had died in an ambulance due to delays.
The opposition accuses the conservative government of Prime Minister Matthew Morawiecki of failing to prepare the healthcare system for the second wave of the pandemic. Warsaw Mayor Rafal Traskowski, close to the Liberals, said municipal hospitals do not have enough ventilators in the wards where Covid-19 patients are treated. “The situation is critical,” he told Dziennik Gazeta Prawna earlier this week.
Health Minister Adam Nijilsky blamed the problems on hospital administration and a lack of coordination between hospitals, and said ambulance drivers did not know where beds were available. “We also noticed the incomprehensible fact that they hide beds, although they are available, but the head of the hospital or ward does not want to introduce this patient,” he said.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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