Doctor’s Appointment: When a choking patient has to wait a day in a hospital, it’s hard to gauge everyone’s stress

According to a press release from the Santara Clinics Communication Service, the Santara Clinics Center for Infectious Diseases is the place in Vilnius where ambulances circulate to transport suspected coronavirus patients.

Patients with the most severe form are also treated here.

There was no need to choose which patient to rescue

In a statement issued on Sunday, L. Jančorienė says that the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated in the last nine months, has not escaped even to the most remote corners of the world, it has affected us all.

However, doctors and everyone else who works in healthcare have faced the greatest challenges.

“Conspiracy theories that the infection does not exist end at the threshold of a hospital, outpatient clinic or nursing home, when you see patients affected by the infection and doctors tired of constant stress. Many doctors have experienced the symptoms of illness caused by the pandemic virus themselves, most of them were exposed to the infection at work, but they lost the professional risks of sick doctors. How we are committed ”, emphasized the professor.

Conspiracy theories that the infection does not exist end on the doorstep of a hospital, clinic, or nursing home when infected patients and doctors weary from constant stress.

According to L. Jančorienė, the passing pandemic months, the fading hopes that the infection will recede soon, the undoubted increase in morbidity in the autumn and winter months, sow feelings of fatigue, irritability, fear, dissatisfaction.

They are felt and expressed by a frequent physician working on the “front” of this war.

The head of the Center for Infectious Diseases of the Santara Clinics mentioned that in the spring he visited several times that before the pandemic reached Lithuania, he managed to prepare both physically and morally.

“Fears were in everyone’s heart and mind, but the hospital beds or the resuscitation room were enough for everyone, none of us had to make the most difficult decision: choosing which patient to rescue and who we will no longer be able to help “says the doctor.

Fears were certainly in everyone’s heart and mind, but the beds in the hospital or the resuscitation room were enough for everyone, none of us had to make the most difficult decision: choosing which patient to rescue and who we can no longer help.

Decisions had to be made immediately

According to L. Jančorienė, today the situation is much more complicated, as the number of infected people increases, so tension is growing both in society and in the medical community.

According to her, the situation has changed especially in recent weeks, when decisions at all levels of the administration (Ministry of Health, Vilnius Municipality, organizational and patient support administrations) had to be taken very quickly.

“When all the beds of the infectious disease units for COVID-19 infection are full, when all the surveillance isolation rooms are full and the asphyxiated patient in the hospital reception area has to wait 24 hours in a hospital , and the number of these patients increases in hours and oxygen in other units of the hospital. It is limited, it is already difficult to measure the tension of all of us “, emphasized L. Jančorienė.

The head of the Center for Infectious Diseases of Clinicas Santara pointed out that in recent days, the administration of the organizing hospital has had to make decisions immediately, even if it senses an outbreak of discontent, reproach or even anger.

In her address, the doctor writes that it is understandable that any change – the participation of a doctor of any specialty, a specialist in non-infectious diseases, the retraining of another hospital department – would begin in a normal time from discussions, discussions, training and trainings.

“Although sometimes we feel that time is lacking for common agreements, we have chosen a way of life in which a person’s life, his health, is the greatest value for which we fight, even when we are very tired, sometimes frustrated, perhaps even feeling injustice. It is understandable, very human. There have been and definitely will be mistakes, perhaps not all decisions of decision makers at different levels will be correct, there may be more and more time for conversations, discussions and finding compromises. But now we all have a duty to save people’s lives, “says L. Jančorienė.

104 patients are in treatment

As of November 1, 104 COVID-19 patients are being treated at Santara clinics. Eight of them are in the Resuscitation and Intensive Care Unit.

The Santara Clinics Communication Service reports that there are vacancies in the COVID Unit II, the recently established COVID Unit III Pediatric Center and the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital.

In the Santara clinics, 47 doctors were diagnosed with coronavirus infection.

56 doctors have been isolated by contact with infected people.