Hungarian Doctors Union: Sometimes 65-70 year olds cannot use a ventilator because the intensive care unit is full of young people



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They are getting younger and younger, arriving at the hospital in an increasingly serious condition, said Judit Tóth, vice president of the Hungarian Doctors’ Union at ATV. The average age of the deceased is also declining dramatically in the third wave:

“The situation is very serious, according to the rules of disaster medicine, we have to choose who will receive the emergency care provided if between 8 and 10 patients with a serious condition enter at the same time,” said Tóth.

There are constant indications that previously 8-bed intensive care units now operate with 40 beds, or two to three times the flow of patients in emergency departments, a doctor has to treat 40 patients in one shift.

He said he had heard that seniors aged 65 to 70 could not use a ventilator because the intensive care unit was full of young people.He thanked the general director of Hospital Ózd for standing up for the truth when he said on city television: “Imagine the recordings at the Ózd hospital that we saw about the situation in Italy at that time.” The General Director of the National Hospital called this a lie, Judit Tóth, spoke with several of Ózd’s colleagues who confirmed that the situation was serious.

Faced with this, Miklós Kásler said about the situation of the hospitals in the Bayer Show: “We do not tremble.”According to Tóth, we should talk about an early opening for the moment, rather toughen it up – this was also suggested by the Medical Chamber – and he warned that although the vaccination of teachers is rewarding, there will not be time for protection before schools to be developed. reopen.

In our weekly summary of the epidemic, we also wrote: In such a serious epidemic situation, it is a dangerous communication trick for the government to start talking about the details of the opening.

Cover image: MTI / Balogh Zoltán

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