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As the Santara Clinic announced on Friday, the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital has 30 places for COVID-19 patients and additional facilities are being arranged; the hospital is currently ready to vacate 86 places.
With the increasing number of infected people, the transfer of patients is being discussed with M. Marcinkevičius, the Republican University of Vilnius, Ukmergė and other hospitals in the region.
According to the Santara clinics, patients are being relocated because the approach of a long weekend and the monitoring of the tense epidemiological situation aims to manage large flows of patients and ensure that patients with other diseases do not suffer.
According to Friday, 97 patients with COVID-19 are being treated in the Santara clinics, five of them in the Resuscitation-Intensive Care Unit. The additionally equipped COVID-19 compartment II (in casing C) with 30 beds is almost full. In total, VUL Santara clinics have 102 facilities for patients with Covid-19 disease.
“Necessary assistance and planned services continue to be provided, transplants and other emergency procedures are performed. We will optimize planned services, that is, we will postpone only those services that do not worsen the health status of patients or cause other undesirable consequences”, Feliksas Jankevičius, CEO of Santara Clinics is cited in the report.
According to him, outpatient services will be optimized: patients who come for a second or third medical opinion or for regular health monitoring will receive remote consultations.
In the Santara clinics, 41 doctors were diagnosed with coronavirus infection and 46 were isolated due to contacts.
According to the clinics, additional staff is needed, a reserve list of all medical personnel is being drawn up, doctors from all hospital centers are being mobilized.
“Based on world practice and reliable data from recent virological studies, which have demonstrated the obvious benefits of personal protective equipment, as well as social distance in stopping the spread of the virus, we ask everyone: doctors, their families and the general public who wear masks … The second wave is complicated, so we must focus so that everyone receives the necessary medical services, “says F. Jankevičius.
Despite the high number of infections, treatment is needed for 10-12 percent. of those infected, resuscitation and intensive care, about 3 percent.
According to the hospital, the planned measures should provide medical care and assistance to all patients during the upcoming long weekend.
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