Kotanidou at MEGA: at least we don’t need to transfer patients to another country



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Anastasia Kotanidou, Pulmonologist, Intensive Care Unit and President of the Greek Intensive Care Company, spoke with MEGA and Rania Jima in the main newsletter about the increase in nightmares in cases. coronavirus In our country.

Greece set another sad record today, with EODY announcing for the first time since the start of the pandemic more than 3,000 cases of coronavirus.

In this way, unfortunately, the “black” predictions are confirmed, which some time ago spoke of 3,000 and 4,000 cases and at that time seemed very distant. However, now they are our reality.

The shadow of the pandemic may be falling heavily on the country, but Ms. Kotanidou emphasized that “there is light in the tunnel, the light of the vaccine.”

“At this stage it seems that the virus is transmitted very easily,” he pointed out and recalled the protection measures, with special emphasis on the use of the mask and the avoidance of synchronicity.

The critical days

Asked about the next few days, the pulmonologist said that the figures we see are something that experts expected to be the cause of the confinement, she stressed, adding that “the cases will be at these levels, we will not see a decrease in cases.” If we see a decrease or at least a stabilization from the middle of next week, we will be happy. “

“Thessaloniki is under a lot of pressure in terms of availability of beds, but we have the opportunity to open more beds. “There are not as many doctors as we would like,” he said of the ICU beds.

“Today in northern Greece and Larissa there were a lot of pipelines,” he said about the situation in hospitals.

“If we are lucky and can transport a patient to a hospital in the same city, we are lucky.” We see other European countries transferring patients to other countries. “

“The main thing is to save the patient, if we need to transport him safely to another unit, we will do it, even in another city,” he added.

Regarding the tragic images that we all saw in Bergamo in the first wave of the pandemic and if Thessaloniki is close to this dramatic development, Ms Kotanidou was optimistic and emphasized that “if we all try together, we will succeed, it is important. follow the protection measures “.

Detailed what he told MEGA

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