Professor Kasiulevičius Calls For Action ASAP – A Real Explosive Mix At Lithuania’s Leading Hospital

“Why do we have to reduce the spread of the virus so drastically? To prevent the depletion of the health system. Many people in Lithuania are convinced that doctors and SAMs could ignore the spread of the virus and provide planned personal health care services “in stride”. This last thesis was actively used by politicians in the electoral campaign. The government did not pay or … did not want to defend itself. In the heat of the electoral campaign, SAM called for an increase in planned aid, so why were the former rulers at that time not paying and unwilling to defend themselves?

Because the defense is based on the simplest paradigm: the health system is not a resistant fortress, but only a house of cards, which is not defended by a well-coordinated defense, but by chaotically opposed enthusiasts, heroes ”, said the professor .

According to him, the situation in hospitals is very complicated. Both doctors at risk and newcomers are forced to work with patients.

“Each virus attack does not destroy the external fortifications, but rips bricks from the base. The information we constantly receive about thousands of empty beds is worthless when it is known that those thousands of beds are attended by doctors at risk who become infected. easily and get sick and ill for a long time. Doctors who have heard for the first time in their lives what infection control is. Or desperately throw newcomers into battle – resident doctors who perceive themselves as part of the rules clear, legitimately demanding what we, “a long time ago”, have nothing to offer them.

Young people would like to defend themselves in well-equipped fortifications, and we can only offer to dig a trench for ourselves. And it’s not surprising that my generation has also received a similar offer from senior colleagues. Yes, in that war new doctors are being born who cover our “butts” for all of us, Professor Ligita Jančorienė wrote a beautiful letter to the residents who came to the “war” this month. She and she are constantly on the front line. A true example of devotion. “Journalists show a lot about Sela and Viktor when the real world heroes are quite different,” wrote the scientist.

He reported that hospitals are very sensitive to the spread of the virus. And some work, hospital preparation is delayed.

“The problem is that the hospital of several hundred places becomes nothing after the infection and the jobs of the main doctors and nurses disappear. Remember that oxygen was supposed to be introduced everywhere during the summer. The televisions show images of the city of Vilnius (!!!), where that oxygen is rushed in. And no matter whose subordinate hospital it is: the pandemic, which has been going on for half a year, hits us unexpectedly every week.

The pandemic hurts painfully for emergency care because the beds need COVID-19 because doctors who perform complex surgeries and procedures just get sick. Many say that such doctors through the eyes of Lithuania. There are many doctors, but there are few who know and can ”, said the professor.

According to him, the situation is already very serious in some hospitals.

In Santorini, I know a dozen people who will stop all transplants, stroke extractions, cardiovascular coronary angiography, stenting, or complicated cancer surgeries. They may not stop, but their results will be worse. For some, it’s just numbers, but the healthcare system is based on talent. It is all your “drive” and courage.

Complex assistance was mainly concentrated in the hospitals of two universities and its part in Klaipeda, Siauliai and Panevezys.

After all, it is not for nothing that our LSMU colleagues “protect” their university clinics from the invasion of COVID-19 – a large flow of patients from central and western Lithuania is “holding” in these clinics. You will not do many complicated operations and interventions in the area, do not get angry more. Meanwhile, the rest of Lithuania and the Santara Clinic do not have that luxury, and here is a really explosive mix: COVID-19 and complex patients planned in a hospital. It is difficult for Šiauliai and Panevėžys, because the hospitals in these cities, which were visited by patients from the surrounding areas, have also become COVID-19 treatment centers, and planned services must also be provided for patients with other diseases.

SAM, in the summer, so enthusiastically urging institution directors to provide as many scheduled services as possible, told the public very superficially how many of those scheduled services are provided in the health system. For many in the public, it seems that without COVID-19, doctors do nothing. But after all, surgeries are performed, heart attacks and strokes are treated, cancer is fully treated, family physicians perform as many consultations live and remotely as before the crisis, ”wrote V Kasiulevičius.

And finally, he asked to stop the spread of the virus as soon as possible.

“But as the infection progresses, everything can fail in an instant. Therefore, we need to ‘suppress’ the spread of infection to at least 200 cases per day, track COVID-19 contacts, protect scheduled care , have enough staff to treat patients in intensive care.

I enclose a Czech timetable. At the beginning of the pandemic, more than 10 percent of those who were sick were hospitalized, that number dropped to 2 percent in the summer, we were very satisfied with the mitigation of the pandemic, but now the numbers are increasing again to 4 percent. Winter brings with it the risk of exhaustion arriving earlier than expected. That is why we must stop the spread of the virus, “wrote V. Kasiulevičius.