“Save me doctor, I have children to grow up!”

The professor and director of the G. de “Herrikos Dunan” Pathological Clinic Mr. Antonis Dimitrakopoulos worked voluntarily for eight days in the Covid-19 clinic of Katerini Hospital and describe what you experienced, “In the densest medical days and hours of your life”.

“Must have been the bitterest days” mentioned in a post on his Facebook page. And immediately below he explains: “90 patients treated daily, 140 in total. Dozens of deaths. Continuous intubation. One afternoon we discharged 7, in the afternoon their beds were full again. In the ICU, they kept the sick for up to 36 hours until they found a bed in the clinic. Many deliveries, because they did not fit anywhere. Many relatively young, 45 to 60 years. Some with small children: “save me doctor, I have children to grow up. Breaking your heart. The second day we intubated a patient from 39 years. After a while and 47 years. Scan at these ages. It’s not just the elderly. And most importantly: no other risk factors. With one exception, obesity often “

The descriptions given by Mr. Antonis Dimitrakopoulos It seems like a war zone answer. It is not only the continuous cases that require hospitalization, some of which are necessarily intubated, but also the multiple shortcomings, mainly in specialized medical personnel.

He characteristically writes: “No pulmonologist … Too many covid patient doctors at the same time. All hospital specialties are used. But what can doctors not relevant to covid pneumonia offer? They do what they can with love, self-respect and self-denial many times over. But it’s not enough. The apprentices in all the specialties are fantastic. Your offer is invaluable. “

Next, he tries to compare the situation in hospitals in the province in relation to hospitals in large cities, such as Athens. What separates them? Chaos if we judge by what it says.

“There are a lot of doctors in the hospitals of the big cities. In Athens we live in another reality. Far from the sad reality of the hospitals in the prefectures, where the health system cannot cope with this huge burden of so many patients. with pneumonia at the same time. They were not designed for the conditions required to cope with the pandemic. In a time of “sufficient” peace “, in a time of” insufficient “war..

And concludes: “They need help mainly from specialist doctors and experienced nurses. And in equipment of course. But I wonder: how many ventilators do you have, the doctors and nurses who will operate them and treat patients, how will they find them for the staff of the hospitals of the small towns in Greece?

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