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the epidemiological situation in our country regarding its transmission coronavirus and new cases of COVID-19 infection caused by the virus, with scientific and health authorities constantly monitoring the resilience of the health system, especially ICU beds. The last 24 hours 529 patients are hospitalized, with 161 in need of intensive care in a special unit (ICU, MAF, MEL).
Yesterday, for the fourth day of the last week, a high number of cases was registered, more than 300. Specifically, yesterday the number of cases “closed” at 312 and the day before yesterday, Tuesday, 310 were registered. Last Saturday another 302 cases of coronavirus were detected and last Thursday 372 were confirmed -a record number that … fortunately was not has beaten-. In Attica, where you are on the … negative pedestal Collecting the largest number of positive cases of coronavirus in the country for weeks, yesterday for the third day of September a very high number of cases was registered. Of the 284 domestic cases, 174 were detected in Attica and 110 in 24 other regions of the country.
The day before yesterday, the epidemiological report of the National Public Health Organization (EODY) contained an alarmingly high number of cases, 197 positive cases. The number of cases on September 11 was also high. According to sources from the relevant ministries, the highest number of cases is detected in the municipalities of Athens and Piraeus. The fact that these are areas with a very large population makes it difficult to stop the epidemic, which explains the network of measures that Attica will be under until the end of the month.
In fact, the representative of the Ministry of Health for the coronavirus, professor Gikas Majorkinis Characteristically, he declared in the most recent information that “urban centers are the Achilles heel in dealing with the pandemic.” In this regard, urban areas are obviously of particular importance in reducing the pandemic and reducing excessive transmission to the population. A number of two-digit cases “gives” constantly and the Thessaloniki Peripheral Unit, although the wave of the epidemic is in remission after taking measurements last month. Yesterday in Thessaloniki 26 cases were registered. Out of 11 and 10 cases were identified in Pella and Pieria, respectively, peripheral units that have been affected by the coronavirus and in which outbreaks, outbreaks of cases, have been identified.
They also have a constant “presence” in the daily epidemiological report the regional units of Ioannina and Heraklion, Crete as well as to the island of Lesbos with small influxes of both residents and refugees and immigrants who were welcomed at the Moria Center.
Pressure in the Intensive Care Unit
During the last 24 hours, the constant admission of overcrowded patients to the Units has continued. The constant increase of intubated patients puts a lot of pressure on the health system, especially in its most critical field, that of the Intensive Care Units (ICU, Intensive Care Units (ICU) and Special Infection Units (ICU) where patients with covid-19 are treated. Within 7 hours, that is, from the announcement of the EODY data where 67 intubated patients were reported, until the afternoon hours, another 4 patients had to be intubated.
It is indicative that, according to your data Ministry of Health, the beds of all Units for patients with coronavirus infection in Attica are approximately 70% full.
In particular, ICU beds in the territory’s hospitals amount to 930. Of these, 701 are available for patients with diseases other than Covid-19 (519 occupied, 182 vacant). All 229 are available exclusively for the treatment of Covid-19 patients (223 in NSS hospitals, 6 in the military).
Of the total 330 ICU beds in the basin, 255 beds have been allocated for diseases other than Covid-19, of which 207 are occupied and 48 are vacant. Of the 75 ICU-Covid beds, 53 are vacant and 22 are vacant (70.5% occupancy rate).
According to the Minister of Health, given the increase in admissions observed in Attica hospitals, due to the high epidemiological burden As observed in recent days in the Region, the ministry is launching the increase in ICU-Covid beds, as it did in the first phase of the pandemic.
Hospital doctors are concerned
The representatives of the hospital doctors express their intense concern, highlighting with their announcement that “reality is sounding the alarm, according to the messages that arrive daily from hospitals across the country.” Therefore, they request a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Health as well as with the Prime Minister, “before it is too late”, as they emphasize.
His presidency Federation of Hospital Physicians Associations of Greece (OENGE) points out in its announcement the continuous daily increase in the absolute number of patients seriously affected by COVID-19 infection, who are hospitalized in the ICU. Daily increase varies from 2 to 8 patients. OENGE stresses that it is clear that all efforts must be exhausted to prevent the epidemic from turning into an “intensive care crisis, a development that would have catastrophic results, as we saw in other countries last spring.”
“It is tragic, in the XXI century and in peaceful conditions, age triage ‘we do not intubate those over 80, 70, 60’, depending on the availability of ICU beds” the hospital doctors report, complaining that “The development of new ICU beds is on paper and is not done with real permanent health personnel or with the need to unconditionally order ICU beds from private hospitals.”
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