“We just lost a patient! Do you understand where we are?”



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The figures with the victims of the coronavirus in our country can impact us, but we cannot even imagine what the doctors, nurses and those who are on the front line of the great battle with the pandemic are experiencing. This morning or Nikolaos Kapravelos, director of the ICU of Papanikolaou Hospital, the hospital that lifts enormous weight in Thessaloniki, gave a shocking interview on SKAI, describing what he and his colleagues go through every day. Indicative that he was late to leave the connection because a man with a coronavirus froze … “Some time ago we lost a patient …”, he said.

What he said on camera, obviously tired of what he is experiencing, is shocking: “We are the last to fall, because we are angry. Every half hour we lose one of ours, do you understand what situation we are in? We have 200 beds available for a disease, this has never happened before! 200 give life battle».

At that stage, he was also asked about those who want to make their way to Polytechnic and exclaimed: “Mercy! Mercy! “I am a fan of the historical fact, but do not confuse it with the situation we live now.”

And continued: “We intubate the young! A 35-year-old is currently fighting for his life in my unit. With no other health problems, he has severe pneumonia … Last night we transported a patient who was better put on a 54-year-old man heavily intubated. Now we are under the business center, we are not a hospital, we do not sleep. No breakage in very difficult conditions».

«There are no words to describe the moment when we tell someone that they will be intubated. And the relatives who are behind … are mothers, fathers who intubate their childrenAdded.

Finally he wanted to send a message to everyone: “The only way to defeat him is to isolate him, take action. We were late to get them and we paid for it in Thessaloniki».

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