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Unbearable pressures are exerted on the national health system, as the rapid increase in hospital admissions, as well as intubation, has led to a 63.7% coverage of ICU beds nationwide.
According to the information, of the 436 ICU beds for coronavirus cases that exist in all hospitals, 278 are already covered, leaving only 158 vacant.
Analytically, in Attica, out of 164, 109 Covid ICU beds are covered and 55 are empty, that is, at a rate of 66.4%, the capital ICU is occupied.
The picture is worse in Thessaloniki, where only 24.6% of ICU beds for coronavirus are “free”. Of the 118 ICU beds in Thessaloniki, 89 are covered and only 29 are empty.
Meanwhile, the “Agios Pavlos” of Thessaloniki, which was already evacuated from the other patients who were discharged or transferred to private clinics, now operates as a hospital exclusively for patients with Covid-19, by decision of the Ministry of Health.
As the commander of the hospital, Odysseas Katsakas, told APE-MPE, the hospital will no longer be on duty but will receive 24 hours a day patients with Covid-19 who need treatment and who cannot be treated in other hospitals, due to the fullness of the beds. .
The Agios Pavlos Hospital has a total of 93 beds for patients with Covid-19, in one of which there is the possibility that the patient will undergo dialysis if he is on dialysis, and 8 ICU beds. Currently, 40 of the 93 beds and 7 of the 8 ICU beds are occupied.
The only hospital in Thessaloniki that does not treat patients with Covid-19 is Theagenio anticancer hospital, which has 8 ICU beds, treating oncology patients and others who do not have coronavirus. Cancer patients for Covid-19 are treated in other hospitals.
Source: skai.gr
