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“It was decided that the hospital will begin providing services to patients with COVID-19 in our units located in Antakalnio str. 124. On Friday 130 beds will be prepared for patients with COVID-19 disease. As of Friday, twenty patients will be able to connect to a direct supply of oxygen, this number will rise to 86 in the next few days.
All other patients requiring medical assistance may request and receive such assistance in the VMKL units located in Antakalnio str. 57. There will continue to be two departments of day surgery that provide scheduled care, and all others: surgery, therapy clinics, departments of pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology. (…) There will be a decrease in the number of patients planned in the hospital, only the one-day surgery room will be closed and three rooms of the therapeutic profile will be closed, ”said the director of the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital dr. Narimantas Markevičius.
According to the head of the hospital, half of the required beds have been vacated to this day.
“However, it should be understood that according to the infection control requirement, to receive patients, all beds must be vacated, disinfection must be performed, infrastructure must be reorganized, and only then can COVID-19 patients be admitted. “said N.
Personnel challenges may arise
According to him, a very important issue: the staff.
“Treating patients with COVID-19 requires more staff because shifts change every six to eight hours. This is a great challenge for the hospital, but we will solve it in the near future, ”said N. Markevičius.
The head of the hospital reported that the medical brigades will be ready to begin work on Friday at the end of this day.
“However, looking at the general epidemiological situation, we see that the doctors are sick. There are many doctors who are in contact, they are in self-isolation. It is difficult to say how the situation will develop. “There may be problems with personnel, but currently there are brigades that will be able to start assistance on Friday,” said N. Markevičius.
He mentioned that these issues will be addressed together with the Santara Clinics and the Municipality of Vilnius. The hospital also has a plan in case some of the doctors become infected.
“So, if we don’t have the help of other medical institutions, where the situation may be similar, we will have to reduce the scope of the planned aid, which is located on Antakalnio street. 57 subdivisions, and transferring employees to work in Antakalnio str. 124, where assistance will be provided to patients with COVID-19, ”said N. Markevičius.
The head of the hospital assured that the patients who are currently being treated are not being forcibly evicted.
“Patients who have completed hospital treatment or who can continue treatment on an outpatient basis are discharged home, under the supervision of a family doctor. For all patients who need to continue hospital care, this morning has already been drawn up a plan with the municipality, Clinicas Santara, the part where they will be transferred to other hospitals. This is also the Mykolas Marcinkevičius hospital, part of which can be transferred to nursing hospitals and other medical institutions in Vilnius county, “he said N. Marcinkevičius.
The hospital manager reported that eight of the 55 patients to be relocated were relocated at 12 noon on Wednesday. Twenty patients were transferred to another unit of the same hospital. He promised that other patients would be transferred Thursday.
Outpatient treatment will continue in 18 patients.
Additional funds allocated
The Vilnius City Municipality will allocate around 100,000 LTL for the reorganization of the medical institution. euros.
With the help of the auxiliary arm, the work of the hospital had to be reorganized and part of the operations planned to rescue seriously ill patients with COVID-19 had to be abandoned. Scheduled surgeries are stopped at a single Outpatient Surgery Department. Two outpatient surgery departments remain at the hospital to provide scheduled assistance. The hospitalization of planned allergic patients is temporarily suspended, according to a municipal press release.
The necessary assistance continues to be provided in the Surgery Clinic: the Department of Abdominal Surgery, the Department of Urology, the Department of Vascular Surgery and the Department of Cardiology, the Department of Nephrology and the Department of Internal Medicine. The Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic and the Pediatric Department work smoothly.
The scheduled surgeries will continue to be performed as far as possible by extending the opening hours of the two remaining Daily Surgery Departments. It should be noted that during the first week of local quarantine work, after the reorganization of work, some temporary interruptions may occur, but the services of the planned operations will continue to be provided in the usual way, according to a press release.
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