Index – National – One Fifth of Hospital Beds Released Due to Coronavirus

Miklós Kásler, Minister of Human Resources, sent a letter dated Wednesday to the head of all inpatient healthcare providers regarding the “instruction to inspect adequate beds for the care of Covid-19 infected patients,” Portfolio wrote. .

Miklós Kásler

Photo: Lajos Soós / MTI

The main points of the letter are:

• In hospitals, instead of the previous 10 percent, 20 percent of the total number of beds must be kept on standby so that they can participate in treating coronavirus patients if necessary.
• The heads of the institutions are asked to verify the availability and suitability of the beds that can be included in the care of coronavirus infections.
• The measure should not lead to the dismissal of patients treated at the institution.

A Administrator of the National Health Insurance Fund June Summary According to the total number of beds, it is 69 thousand, of which 20 percent are 13,800 beds. According to the report, 53 percent of active beds and 52 percent of chronic beds were used, so more than 31,000 beds were empty in June. Since then, it is expected that the number of free beds will decrease, at the same time that the 13,800 beds are considered to be of ample capacity, since currently about a hundred patients with coronavirus are treated in hospitals.

In the spring, the government released half of the hospital beds due to the spread of the epidemic, and then this rate gradually decreased as the situation improved.

According to the latest data, 459 new coronavirus infections have been identified in Hungary in the last 24 hours and an 84-year-old chronic patient has died. According to the National Center for Public Health (NNK), in the fall wave of epidemics, The average age of those infected by Covid-19 was 26 years., compared to the average age of 67 in the spring.