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More than a thousand healthcare workers are infected every day, Milan Kubek, president of the Czech Medical Chamber, told CNN, emphasizing that the healthcare system there had not yet faced such a challenge. The Czech Republic currently has the highest coronavirus morbidity and mortality rate in the EU: 1,448.7 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, according to the European Epidemiology Center, and the mortality rate per 13,000 inhabitants is also 13.5 per 100,000 inhabitants. jump.
The health system is trying to establish new capacities,
Field hospitals are also being established in Prague and Brno at a rapid pace, and intensive care units are starting to fill up and more and more healthcare workers are retiring.
They already expect foreign aid to fill the staff of the Brno camp hospital, and the matter is currently being negotiated with Germany, Poland and the Red Cross.
The Medical Chamber and the Czech Minister of Health are calling on their doctors practicing abroad to help fight the virus in all 10 million countries, and they also welcome medical students and other health professionals. Over a thousand outgoing nurses were offered the opportunity to return.
A degree more pessimistic than this is Jiři Vyhnal, head of the emergency department at Kyjov Hospital, who said
The Czech healthcare system has already collapsed because it can no longer provide long-term care to patients who do not suffer from covidity.
The president of the medical chamber is also confident that the country can receive foreign aid. However, CNN recalls that when Italy requested international medical assistance at the peak of the epidemic in the spring, and mainly military doctors were sent from various countries, the Czech Republic did not offer assistance.
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