- The Associated Press reports that the Kansas radiology technician fell asleep in an RV parked in his hospital parking lot after his colleagues seized the COVID-19.
- He was the only one capable of performing X-rays, and without service, there was a risk of ER shutting down.
- Hospitals across the country are facing challenges as COVID-19 cases increase.
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A radiology technician at a Kansas hospital had to sleep in an RV in the parking lot for a week after his colleagues fell ill at Covid-1 last month, the Associated Press reported.
Eric Levlan had to be on-site at Rush County Memorial Hospital in La Cross, Kansas, if anyone needed an X-ray because he was the only one left who could do it, so he fell asleep in the RV.
“To keep the critical access hospital open, you have to have X-rays and a lab working,” Levalen told the AP. “If one of them goes down, you go to diversion and at that point you lose your ER. We don’t want that to happen, especially for the community.”
Hospitals around Kansas, in most parts of the U.S., are facing hurdles as they work to provide care during the latest outbreak of the COVD-19 epidemic.
On Sunday, the COVID-19 tracking project Report In the US, 101,487 people are currently hospitalized with the novel coronavirus.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, U.S. About 15 million COVID-19 infections have been reported so far, killing more than 283,500 people.
The APA reports that the situation has become particularly difficult in rural parts of the country. As the number of cases increases, some small hospitals in these areas are unable to send many patients to larger hospitals because they, too, are under too much pressure.
Other states have adopted different approaches to reduce hospital stress. In Massachusetts, the government’s Charlie Baker announced Monday that starting at the weekend, hospitals will have to “reduce” alternative processes to make room.
In Pennsylvania, government Tom Wolfe warned that hospitals could also be overburdened.
However, Lisa Davis, director of the Pennsylvania Rural Fish Rural Health, told the Philadelphia Inquiry that some patients may be relieved of some of the burden if they are treated at home.
“I do not want to discredit the governor in any way,” he said. “The speculation is that we will need all the hospital capacity in the state. But what we are looking for in our rural hospitals is that they are treating more COVID-19 patients at home so that really sick patients can be in the hospital.”
