The coronavirus is already being vaccinated in hospitals: patients are discharged for treatment at home

Oleg spent a week at the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital. The man only had to leave the treatment center on Thursday, but doctors decided not to hold him any longer and prescribed another one on Wednesday.

“By order of the Minister of Health, everything is being done here. An order has been issued to doctors to discharge all patients and this is where they will be where the fighting patients will be brought, ”former patient Oleg told LNK news reporters.

The man said it was not him who was prescribed early, to release the beds supposedly ordered by all patients in the Department of Cardiology.

“Premature patients, those who cannot walk, will go to other hospitals,” the man said.

The Antakalnis Hospital began to vacate places when there was a shortage of beds for cribs in the Santara Clinic. Therefore, Antakalnis Hospital also expects to treat coronavirus patients starting Friday. The facility will have 130 beds and the medical teams will work 6 to 8 hours each.

Half of these beds are currently unoccupied at the hospital, but that is not enough. To receive the patients, it is necessary to release all of them, as the facilities will still need to be rebuilt and disinfected.

“Already on Friday, 20 patients will be able to connect to a direct supply of oxygen: oxygen therapy. In the near future, this number will increase to 86,” said Narimantas Markevičius, director of the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital.

Patients are not forcibly evicted to free these beds, says the hospital director. According to him, only one day of surgery and three therapeutic rooms will be closed. And everyone else will continue working, only in another building: 57 Antakalnio Street.

But if there is a shortage of doctors working with coronavirus, services may need to be reduced in the future. However, no patient will be left without treatment, said N. Markevičius.

Eight of the 55 patients were discharged from the hospital on Wednesday. They are in the departments of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Rehabilitation and Day Surgery. Another 18 patients will be discharged.

“Hospital treatment is completed or those who can continue outpatient treatment are discharged to a home under the supervision of a family doctor. And for all patients who need to continue hospital care, a plan has already been drawn up with the municipality and the Santara clinics on Wednesday morning, where they will be transferred to other hospitals, ”said the director of the City of Vilnius N. Markevičius.

Vida Augustinienė, president of the Council of Representatives of Patient Organizations, fears that the first quarantine scenario in the country will be repeated, and that patients with coronavirus will be left to their own devices. The hospital is said to not discharge people without completing necessary treatment.

“Both cardiovascular and diabetic people cannot go without medication. If something happened, if the situation has worsened, they should immediately obtain the necessary specialized consultations,” said the representative.

According to Health Minister Aurelius Veryga, if it is a matter of life and death, no one will really move those patients.

“It just came to our notice then. If we are talking about, say, a heart attack, a stroke, then no one will use these beds for any coronavirus. Because it is a support group, where the minutes are counted from the moment they are he requests the help until the moment it is provided, ”the Minister explained to LNK reporters.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis believes that it is right to discharge patients early, because there are simply no other alternatives.

“It just came to our knowledge then. It will be the case that the health system will no longer be able to cope with the stress of coronavirus patients, there will be hot spots and those hospitals will no longer exist. In general, then services will not be provided. “explained the Prime Minister.

And here are other hospitals that speak to the fact that the problem is not just a lack of beds, there may soon be a shortage of doctors and nurses.

The Kaunas Hospital of the Lithuanian Health Sciences University (LSMU) claims that it is approaching the limit of its possibilities. The biggest shortage is for infectologists, who are now falling into the heaviest workload.