The South Pest Central Hospital and the Korányi National Institute of Pulmonology no longer have free ventilation capacity, according to Népszava.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

The triple internal medicine building at St. John’s Hospital in the capital has been vacated after the South Pest Central Hospital (this is the former St. Ladislaus and St. Stephen’s Hospital) and the Korányi National Institute of Pulmonology no longer have free ventilation capacity, he wrote Wednesday. His popular word. According to the document, acute cardiological cases and those requiring a heart attack will be treated at St. Imre, Merciful, Uzsoki, St. Margaret and Gyula Nyírő hospitals instead of St. John’s.

We also contacted South-Pest, Korányi and János hospitals to find out if free capacity has really been exhausted and how many coronavirus patients are preparing to receive it, but so far we have not received a response. It is not known in which institution how many respirators there are, in any case, the government bought 16,000 machines from China in the spring.

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The government may have panicked, so it ordered 16,000 ventilators from China, a health expert told hvg.hu. This is double what Viktor Orbán announced as a necessary amount, now they are trying to sell the surplus. The question is whether it will be successful and, if so, to what extent.

According to a previous ministerial decision, severe cases of coronavirus must be transferred to the South Pest and Korányi Central Hospital. The number of new infections is increasing dramatically, and people hospitalized have not increased dramatically so far. According to recent epidemic data, 324 coronavirus patients were treated at the hospital on Tuesday, 18 of whom were hooked up to a ventilator.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke on Saturday about the need to be prepared for the number of infections to continue to rise.


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