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“Hospitals are increasing in number, with 262 additional beds being vacated. (…) I have mentioned that there is an opportunity to increase the number to almost 600 (beds – BNS) in the region,” the minister said on Monday. to the press.
However, the LSMU Kaunas Hospital also reported on the increasing number of patients. On their social account, hospital representatives said the number of patients was growing faster than expected.
“As morbidity increases in the country, so does the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. Among them are not only older people, but also patients from younger age groups who need medical help. .
In recent days, the number of patients treated at LSMU Kaunas Hospital has fluctuated around 70-80, which is 2-3 times more than we estimate in the spring, during the first wave of coronary infection. More than half of our hospitalized COVID-19 patients currently require oxygen therapy.
Our facility has 130 beds for COVID-19 patients. Starting this week, it was decided to give beds to these patients in the Marijampolė and Jurbarkas hospitals, ”wrote the representatives of the LSMU Hospital.
As the incidence in the country increases, so does the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. Among them, not only older people, but also younger people …
Posted by LSMU Kaunas Hospital in 2020 Monday, October 26
Early Monday, the Health Ministry announced that 322 people were being treated for COVID-19 in Lithuanian hospitals, 31 of them undergoing resuscitation.
The Vilnius Santara BNS Clinic has reported that it is currently consulting with other hospitals in the region where beds for COVID-19 patients could be expanded.
“We have been talking to Antakalnis Hospital since morning, it will probably still be necessary to have some alternatives by the end of the week. Now we are working on these issues, whether in one institution or another. We are trying to observe, ”said Aušra Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė, managing director of Santara Clinics.
According to her, although there are still enough beds at the moment, these processes must be coordinated in advance so that other institutions can prepare, decide how to reduce the volume of their services and restructure their activities.
According to a representative of the Santara clinics, the information on the occupation of beds in the hospital is extremely dynamic, patients are constantly discharged and admitted, but as far as she knows, 64 patients are currently being treated, seven of them which are in resuscitation.
In resuscitation, the hospital could treat ten more patients. For patients who do not require resuscitation, Santara clinics have 15 beds in one building and 26 beds in the other.
LSMU Kaunas Hospital, which treats COVID-19 patients in the Kaunas region, currently has 69. The hospital, which previously provided around 100 beds for COVID-19 patients, now this number has increased to 130.
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