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All the elderly who were housed in a private Senior Care Center in the Ioannina area were diagnosed positive for the coronavirus.
There are a total of 56 elderly people who are sheltered in the nursing home. All 56 tests were positive.
The tests of 2/3 of the employees are positive.
Judicial investigation for the nursing home
The elderly were treated in the Infectious Diseases Units of the University of Ioannina, Arta and Igoumenitsa, while, as it became known yesterday, the public case of coronavirus cases was ordered in the private nursing home of Ioannina at the request of the Governor from District.
The Governor of the 6th Health District, Giannis Karvelis, requests that the operating conditions and the observance of health protocols in the private nursing home be investigated. He explained that all patients referred by the nursing home doctor for treatment are examined in the covid-19 ICU of the University Hospital.
It is noted that at the beginning of the week a nursing home worker was diagnosed positive for the virus.
Owner of a nursing home: We are in a tragic situation
“We are completely unable to protect the elderly. They are serious cases, people who are kept on oxygen … In three days we collapse. We are desperate right now. There is nothing we can do. We are in a tragic situation.” Some people should take care and help, “said the owner of the nursing home, speaking to epiruspost.gr.
Until noon, and depending on the seriousness of the situation at the discretion of the doctors, the elderly were treated at the Regional Hospitals of Artá, Preveza and Thesprotia.
The Commander of the VI RAE confirmed that five patients are being treated in the Intensive Care Unit for covid-19 of the University Hospital of Ioannina, which has a capacity of eight beds.
Fears for the elderly and vulnerable groups
Earlier, the president of EODY, Panagiotis Arkoumaneas, who said that today it is possible to hear about 2,000 cases again, said: “Our first priority to protect the health system, are vulnerable groups”, which include the elderly.
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