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EUROKINISSI / TATIANA BOLARI
Images of war in the NSS with almost all the beds of the ICU Covid full. The 206 private doctors hired by the Health Ministry are being called in as the government continues to blatantly ignore calls for private clinics to be ordered.
The situation in Attica’s public hospitals is dramatic with medical staff struggling daily to cope with cases of the Covid-19 disease, fighting with unparalleled vigor against all adversities.
Faced with the heroism of the hospital staff, the government insists on giving “respite” with patches, as in the case of the hiring of 206 doctors contracted with EOPYY. The request for private clinics is a request from both the opposition parties and many scientists, since in this way it will be possible to decongest the NSS and face the pandemic more effectively.
Despite the marginal state of the health system, the government does not seem willing to intervene effectively with the Minister of Health declaring (ANT1) that “the country is not becoming Bergamo” and “we have done what is humanly possible” after a series of negative pipeline records (681 in UCI and 125 out of UCI yesterday).
“Since February 9, we had requested in an open letter from the Prime Minister, the Minister and the Deputy Minister of Health an immediate order for private ICUs and for all doctors who requested to be hired immediately,” said Panagiotis Papanikolaou, a neurosurgeon. Nice hospital and the Panhellenic Federation of Hospital Doctors.
Private Clinic Order
There is a need for help from the private sector and in fact the government should order more private clinics, said (SKAI) the president of EINAP, Matina Pagoni. Regarding the situation in hospitals, he said that “when we have 3,500 Covid patients, there is no possibility that 10% are not intubated. We can go up to 1000 intubated. After 15-20 days we will see a decrease. “
The pulmonologist and intensivist Sofía Pouriki, from the Hospital de Sotiria, said (SKAI) that the units are full and the beds are empty and filled, while for the recruitment of doctors she stressed: “We need hands. We are in red. We work at least 36 hours on call ”.
The professor of Environmental Engineering Demosthenes Sarigiannis last night marked the peak of the curve in the first ten days of April, predicting until then 3,000 daily cases on a weekly average.
Major concern
At the moment, all ICU beds for Covid are full and there are at least 125 patients on the waiting list who are temporarily hospitalized in single beds. According to the president of POEDIN, Michalis Giannakos, patients are selected by doctors, while emphasizing that “there are ranches in hospitalized patients with coronavirus.”
As Mr. Giannakos emphasizes, every day each of the on-call hospitals in Attica “fills two clinical patients” with Covid-19, “reducing the role in general diseases, increasing morbidity and mortality from other causes.” He adds that “ambulances that resemble military vehicles in times of war… show the collapse of primary care and the difficulty of admission to hospitals with symptoms controlled due to lack of space. “The positive incidents are in their homes without surveillance and when they arrive at Amen, they are transported to the hospitals by ambulance.”
Regarding the “Dromokaitio” that built a Covid clinic with 37 mentally ill patients, the president of POEDIN speaks of a “warehouse of souls” and a “cemetery of mentally ill patients with coronavirus, due to lack of infrastructure and personnel”, announcing that a relevant for the prosecutor.
