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Recommendations to its residents Thessaloniki respect the coronavirus protection measures and keep their social contacts to a minimum so that the number of coronavirus cases and to resist the pressure of the city’s hospitals, he addressed the scientific and health organizations that are on the front lines of the pandemic, during a special meeting of the municipal council of Thessaloniki that took place tonight with a teleconference .
At the meeting convened in order to inform the municipal councilors and the public about the course of the coronavirus in Thessaloniki, the adjunct professor Pathology TUE – Infectious Diseases at AHEPA, Symeon Metallidis, spoke of a “difficult situation, with health workers who have gone beyond themselves, with full beds in the ICU and emergency solutions.”
“We take beds from other categories of patients and loan beds from the private sector, which is also reaching its limits.” The whole city is fighting together. We will turn our backs and go to get the city out of this crisis. They will be difficult days. by in the next 10 days we will be in large flows of patients until the measurements are met. The dispersion continues because we close the restaurant and every day some people gather in the houses. Then they are exposed to danger. Now, we don’t have time to talk, it’s precious. We must be closed in hospitals, you must report, ”said Mr. Metallidis.
For AHEPA he said that 1/3 of the hospital, that is, 200 beds are occupied at the moment of patients with coronavirus. “In the ICU, better planning could have been done, but we have reached the point of treating many patients.” Hospitals are not created in three months, “stressed Mr. Metallidis, responding to questions and queries from councilors municipal.
For his part, the professor of Pneumology and Infectious Diseases at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and director of Clinical Respiratory Failure, Ioannis Kioumis, gave an optimistic news on the occasion of today’s vigil at the Papanikolaou hospital“I will dare, with reservations, to say that there is a small but visible decrease in the number of patients suspected of or suffering from coronavirus. Of course, that day does not come. It will have to be statistically confirmed with the on-call hospitals and other hospitals in the coming days. But it is good not to start with a completely black image, but with something that has a little light. “
When asked why Mr. Thessaloniki caused the rapid increase in cases, Mr. Kioumis estimated that one of the main reasons was the arrival of students in the city. “In mid-September, the picture of Thessaloniki was almost idyllic. In an astonishing way, the cases increased rapidly. The weather did not change drastically. Transportation did not get worse either. On the other hand, the Thessalonians did not change their habits. What happened was the massive return of students. We are a campus, young people were looking for their friends after the summer, they wanted to go out. “There was a general relaxation.”
During the meeting, the president of the Panhellenic Medical Association, Athanasios Exadachtylos, reported on the current situation of the city’s hospitals. As he said “the practice of medicine takes place under conditions of war. Entries exceed entries, it is mathematically certain that at some point the beds will be occupied. “So the crucial thing is to stop the flow of patients.”
Regarding the forecasts, he said that “if we let the pandemic evolve from our experience of the other epidemics, we would expect to have a recession in mid-December, as we would pay a heavy tax on blood.” We would expect to have a recurrence in late January and a recession in late March. “
Mr. Exadachtylos stressed that “Christmas is not like Easter on the 20th, but this is my personal assessment, because we have not yet seen how effective the measures will be.”
Finally, the president of the Thessaloniki Medical Association, Nikolaos Nitsas, asked residents to proceed with a “personal and family lockdown, to close the door to the virus, because the next ten days will be particularly critical.” He argued that after the opening of the economy, the measures must be observed again “otherwise we will return to where we are.”
Source: ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ
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