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“Today, we can say a critical situation with patients, because we have already exceeded 70 percent, we have reached 80 percent of bed occupancy. There are five beds left in the Infectious Diseases Unit in building L, so we will practically occupy them today, taking into account the situation that has been happening in recent days, ”Aušra Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė, Director of Management of Clinicas Santara.
“We must have the attitude of the support hospitals and the beds of the support hospitals, because in such a situation they will really be exhausted in a few days,” he added.
Žygimantas Gedvila / 15 min photo / Aušra Bilotienė Motiejūnienė
There are a total of 102 beds in the clinics for the treatment of patients with COVID-19.
According to the representative of the Santara clinics, the clinics are expected to be assisted by the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital, the Vilnius Republican Hospital (RVUL) and the Ukmergė Hospital, but this may not be enough.
“As the director of the (clinical hospital – BNS) assured, it would take 4 to 5 days, which is enough. We hope that only that joint work, common idea and volunteering will help us not to have to wait long, because we have to have beds extras before the holidays, ”he said.
According to her, Ukmergė Hospital could only accept 10 COVID-19 patients so far.
“As you know, ten beds with 10-12 ten patients a day is not a salvation, but we would still be calm in that region.
Today it can be said that it is a critical situation with patients, as ours already exceeds 70 percent, we have reached 80 percent of bed occupancy.
According to A.Bilotienė – Motiejūnienė, RVUL has promised that it will be able to contribute to the situation: medical institutions must decide before Tuesday night how the flows of coronavirus patients will be further distributed.
Clinics are reviewing their buildings to reorganize operations and prevent loss of services, and are likely to allocate part of the Emergency Medical Center isolation rooms to “moderate to severe” COVID-19 patients so that they are not left without assistance.
Photo by Vidmantas Balkūnas (VUL Santara Clinics) / Doctors fighting the coronavirus
The clinics also treat five patients from the nursing hospital; According to the director of the clinics, they do not require special care and will continue to be hospitalized where they are. Seven people are receiving treatment for critically ill patients with artificial lung ventilation, for a total of 12 beds, but the space available for them can be expanded.
Clinics are intended to keep the most difficult patients with them.
A.Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė says that by reducing planned services, teams of doctors working with coronavirus patients are strengthened, as well as resident doctors are used.
We are increasing staff from other departments to work for COVID by paying them assignments, in addition to rescuing us, agreeing, finding a common language with resident doctors; I believe that this week we will solve with the university the problems of transfer cycles, employment, even doctors. “We are trying to find intermediate staff by reducing the number of beds in the units of other departments, mainly due to tuberculosis,” he said.
According to her, other hospitals are already mentioning that there may be a long-term shortage of doctors.
“With regard to human resources, both Vilnius University Hospital and VMKL Hospital and Ukmerg say that this is probably the main thing that could be missing,” said one of the clinic managers.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Clínica Santara
At the Santara Hospital, the coronavirus is currently detected in 27 doctors, ten more are isolated, informed BNS Gitana Letukienė, a representative of the hospital. According to her, the cases are isolated, the largest outbreaks are not currently registered in the hospital.
At that time, A.Bilotienė – Motiejūnienė states that today clinics can still function, but the number of isolating doctors is growing, there are many chimneys, new medical teams are being formed.
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