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The Kaunas Clinics Facebook account indicates that an epidemiological study is underway and that all employees and patients working in this building are being screened for COVID-19.
Until Monday, October 19, the planned patient clinic will be suspended in the profile clinics (Rheumatology, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nephrology, Otorhinolaryngology Diseases, Surgery, Pneumology, Gastroenterology and Urology Clinics) in the Central Building of Kaunas Clinics .
Also, visiting all Kaunas clinics is prohibited. Patients should only be visited in an emergency with the permission of the head of the department or the doctor on duty. Essential personal items can be delivered to patients through the guard station located in the lobby of the central building.
Student practices that take place in the profile clinics of this building are also suspended.
How 15 minutes said Austė Aleksandravičiūtė-Švažienė, Head of the Communication Service of the Kaunas Clinics, the necessary and immediate assistance will continue to be provided to patients.
“The planned patients will not be referred anywhere, so only the provision of services will be postponed. Those currently in these clinics will not be evicted, they will continue to receive treatment. Those who have come to the clinics today to stay in bed are suspended until October 19. We will see the whole situation on Monday. Now all employees in the entire building are being surveyed. It will be investigated today and tomorrow; intensive tests are underway, “explained A.Aleksandravičiūtė-Švažienė.
According to her, patients admitted to clinics are tested for COVID-19 not only at bedtime, but also repeatedly, for example after a week. Patients from “hot” cities are sometimes transported to Kaunas clinics. According to A.Aleksandravičiūtė-Švažienė, when such a patient is brought in, his COVID-19 test is negative, and after a week of retesting, he is already positive.
Daiva Razmuvienė, representative of the National Center for Public Health (NVSC), announced on Thursday that 350 doctors had been infected in medical institutions in October and September. Currently 316 doctors are still ill.
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