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Lithuanian stars or members of the Seimas who have become them become cleaners and elevators, food transporters or even body transporters in hospitals; they only work to reduce the workload of doctors.
“You see, there are people lying in the room in one place and a big black bag in another. The outlook is very sad,” says Vice President of the Seimas Paulius Saudargas.
PHOTO GALLERY. Images of the Covid-19 Hospital
Seimas Vice President, Conservative Paulius Saudargas, is one of 19 volunteer shooters currently working at the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital, where COVID-19 patients are treated.
The situation in all hospitals in the Vilnius region is complicated, not only doctors and nurses are lacking, but also unskilled workers. Lithuanian shooters were among the first to respond to this call for help.
“From cleaning to transfers. I need help sometimes, just physically. The beds are heavy. It needs to be transported from one home to another with the entire patient. It is necessary to do an X-ray, an endoscopy ”, says P. Saudargas.
“Oxygen is measured, the floor is washed, people are transported from the reception to the department. From the chapter, until the last trip, or until another chapter ”, says the interpreter Gabrielius Liaudanskas-Svaras.
Sagittarius Gabrielius Liaudanskas-Svaras, together with the vice president of the Seimas, also runs the hospital. A renowned artist volunteers at the hospital every day from 4 to 8 hours a day.
“There are such black bags and then they give them to loved ones when the time comes. There are still cell phones in those bags, and it’s hard to hear that when you come to the reception, “said G. Liaudanskas-Svaras.
Volunteers, like doctors, explain that the country’s hospitals are full. In the entire Vilnius region, 751 of the 812 beds are occupied and 79 of the 87 resuscitation beds are occupied. It would still be possible to find vacancies in other departments, but hospitals face an insurmountable problem: a shortage of doctors.
“All staff are already working with COVID-19 patients and we have no more reserves. If we have enough 40 employees for 35 beds in normal conditions, then those 35 beds need 100 employees for COVID-19 treatment,” says Narimantas Markevičius , director of the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital.
“It is no longer possible to go into resuscitation because there are simply no more places, it is impossible to get to the hospital because there are no more staff,” says G. Liaudanskas-Svaras.
“The entire hospital that used to provide other services is now a COVID-19 hospital and there is no longer room for it,” Saudargas said.
The situation is bad not only in Vilnius, all Lithuanian hospitals face the same problems. There are currently 2,478 COVID-19 patients in wards across the country at the same time. The health centers treat not only them, but also patients with other diseases. Yet each additional COVID-19 bed deprives doctors of other disease wards.
“If the spread is large and it will increase the number of patients who will need hospital treatment. Some inappropriate solutions will be needed. It may be necessary to reduce the amount of primary health care, that is, the workload of the polyclinics and transfer part of the staff to the hospital, ”said N. Markevičius.
“Doctors are iron, nurses are iron. I looked from the side. If there were no living people, it could run non-stop. The work is not even finished, ”says G. Liaudanskas-Svaras.
The hospital’s volunteer ranks are expanding and today another 20 volunteers from the marksmen’s union have started participating in the training. Additionally, the Lithuanian Red Cross is gathering even more volunteer forces. 900 people expressed their desire to help hard working doctors. Some of them will work in Santara clinics, others will likely be referred to other hospitals in the country.
“Nothing can satisfy the fact that Lithuania is among the leading countries in terms of the number of diseases per 100,000 inhabitants in terms of mortality rate, and this is certainly not the area where we would like to lead,” says President Gitanas Nausėda.
Lithuanian laboratories detected 2,130 new COVID-19 infections yesterday. Another 20 people died. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 has claimed 1,039 lives.
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