At home: Korányi and St. John’s Hospital asked the government office for help in a letter

The Korányi National Institute of Pulmonology (OKPI) requested a dispatch to the Budapest Capital Government Office in a letter, as it did in the spring, Szent János Hospital writes to hvg.hu. At that time, the three experienced and experienced Budapest hospitals, the South Pest Centrum Hospital, OKPI and St. John’s Hospital, were mainly receiving patients with moderate and severe coronavirus.

We also visited the South Pest, Korányi and János hospitals, which Népszava wrote that the St. John’s Hospital triple internal medicine building had been evacuated, after the South Pest Central Hospital and the National Korányi Institute of Neumology (OKPI) failed to breathe. . These three hospitals receive patients with moderate to severe coronavirus. 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 wanted to know if this was all true and, if so, were they prepared to receive coronavirus patients? We were also curious to know how many patients in need of a ventilator can be accommodated.

In the end, only St. John Hospital responded, although we did not receive a complete answer to our questions, but it turned out that the government office sent the OKPI request to all hospitals in Budapest. “In the spring, the authorities will follow a well-tested recipe, directing the necessary professionals to where they can most effectively cure Covid patients,” they write.

It was also added that St. John’s Hospital was able to accomplish any additional tasks in the spring, relying on its own resources. Back then, “normal” patient care turnover was 40% of the previous year.

In contrast, all departments of the hospital are currently operating at almost full capacity; some of our professions, p. Eg traumatology treats an even greater number of cases than usual.

Therefore, according to the hospital, they were asked to direct specialists to perform their additional duties.

Many of our young and middle-aged patients who are hospitalized not primarily for pneumonia caused by Covid, but need to be treated separately. More serious complications are still seen in older patients, but they are still fewer than in the spring.

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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.