There are more people in the hospital than in the spring and now more serious cases are coming in. It turned out that the epidemic hospital in Kiskunhalas is also slowly filling up. The minister has included six new hospitals in the field, and hospitals already involved in the care must prepare more beds.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, 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!

Minister Miklós Kásler expanded the range of institutions involved in Covid care after the number of infections “increased dynamically.”

Therefore, in the future, six more rural hospitals will receive Covid patients: Ödön Jávorszky Hospital in Vác, Ferenc Toldy Hospital in Cegléd, Vaszary Kolos Hospital in Esztergom, Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Hatvan, St. Rókus Hospital in Baja and the Orosháza Hospital. These institutions must be prepared to serve Covid patients with 20 percent of the total number of beds financed.

Miklós Kásler instructed hospitals that have been involved in the care of Covid patients to prepare 30 percent of their total number of funded beds for the care of Covid-certified patients and suspected Covid patients by Friday, October 30, instead of 20 percent.

The Minister of Human Resources also instructed the head of the National Ambulance Service that if the capacity of the primary health care provider designated as the primary manager becomes saturated, patients with severe and moderate Covid infection, proven and suspected hospitalization by Covid should be admitted to health care institutions designated as secondary and tertiary. to deliver.

In Budapest and Pest County, there are 3 + 1 hospitals among the primary institutions and 11 among the designated secondary institutions.

Outside the territory of the Budapest and Pest counties, severe and moderate patients, confirmed Covid-infected and suspected Covid requiring hospital care should be transported mainly to a total of 12 hospitals, secondly to 6 institutions and 9 institutions as external administrators.

By Sunday, the coronavirus had been detected in 3,149 people, with 41,580 actively infected. More and more people are being hospitalized, and 2,449 people are currently being treated, 211 with ventilators. It turned out that the epidemic hospital in Kiskunhalas is also slowly filling up.


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