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An extraordinary meeting of the coordinating committee for the operational management of the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic took place at the EKAB joint operations center on Saturday afternoon, as pressure increases in hospitals and especially in Attica, where they are recorded record import figures.
The meeting, chaired by the Secretary General of Health Services Giannis Kotsiopoulos, was attended by the President of EKAB Nikos Papaefstathiou, the Commander of the 1st RAE Panagiotis Stathis, the Commander of the 2nd RAE Christos Roilos and the Chief of Coordination Anastrias
The meeting was held with the aim of optimally controlling and coordinating the current vigils of the health formations of the Attica basin and will therefore be combined with a simultaneous videoconference with all the commanders of the Hospitals of the 1st and 2nd RAE.
The business plan for the decompression of the NSS and the optimal management of the waves continues with careful “surgical” movements by the officials of the Ministry of Health and EKAB of patients flooding hospitals in the basin.
At the extraordinary business meeting that ended on Saturday afternoon at the EKAB, it was decided to provide another 70 ICU beds for the needs of the epidemic that will gradually take place in the coming days. Another 12 ICU beds will be granted for the treatment of patients with coronavirus infection from Evangelismos, 9 from Agia Olga, 14 from the Red Cross and KAT, as well as Attikon and Tzanio. In total, the ICU beds available for Covid-19 patients in Attica will reach 340.
Next to, and exceptionally this weekend Covid-19 patients will be discharged from hospitals in order to vacate beds and save valuable time. It should be noted that discharges as an administrative procedure in hospitals are not made on Saturdays and Sundays but only on working days. According to those responsible, both the secretary general of health services and the head of the EKAB, Mr. Nikos Papaefstathiou, it is considered a fact that discharges will be based on all medical protocols and their completion will simply be shortened in time.
“We are doing everything we can to take full advantage of the forces of the NSS, knowing from the scientists that a burden is expected on hospitals and more patients. The granting of the 70 additional beds will give encouragement to the UCI. And it is understood that those patients with diseases other than Covid-19 who need ICU will be treated with EKAB in the ICUs of private clinics within the framework of the corresponding agreement that we have made “. says to protothema.gr the secretary general of health services, Mr. Giannis Kotsiopoulos.
On your side the president of EKAB, Mr. Nikos Papaefstathiou He pointed out after the end of the meeting that EKAB is in service 24 hours a day in order to distribute the cases of covid 19 in all hospitals in Attica, having its fleet of ambulances and its crews on high alert.
In total, on a daily basis in recent days, EKAB makes approximately 120 deliveries of confirmed incidents and another 40 suspicious incidents each day. To understand the worsening of the epidemic and the burden on hospitals, suffice it to mention that last week the total reports of covid 19 incidents did not exceed 80 per day.
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