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“Of course, there is something fundamental: the suspension of scheduled services. We appreciate the possibilities of transporting some relatively easier patients from resuscitation to the closest cities that have the capacity to receive, namely Kaunas and Panevėžys.” We have some resources, but if we see that the situation does not improve and we are moving towards the limit of exhaustion, it is a fact that the subject of some more cardinal measures will have to return to discussions, “he added.
According to her, the occupancy of beds for COVID-19 patients in Vilnius had previously increased by about 5%. per week, the number of patients increased by 15% last week.
The deputy minister also said that nearly 40 percent of the new COVID-19 cases detected last day. is registered in Vilnius.
“Yesterday we registered almost 1.6 thousand new cases of COVID-19, of which 38% are in Vilnius. It is obvious that most of the new diseases are related to the city of Vilnius,” said Ž. Simonaitytė.
According to data from the Santara clinics on Tuesday, resuscitation and intensive care sites are already 88% occupied, and active treatment 80%. Of the 159 active treatment sites, 128 were occupied in clinics and 59 of the 67 resuscitation and intensive care units were occupied.
The deputy minister says that it is not difficult to free a simple bed or a bed with oxygen, but it is more difficult to find places for severe patients.
“If we talk about ordinary beds or beds with oxygen supply, then the problem can be solved a little more easily, transporting those patients to the neighboring regions, to Kaunas, to Panevėžys. As for the resuscitation beds, which are already very busy, here it is much more complicated, because it is usually not possible to transfer resuscitation patients due to a serious pathology and basically what we see as middle-aged people in resuscitation in the Santara clinics. Currently, more than 50 years. of the people in resuscitation has been reduced significantly ”, says the vice minister.
1,275 COVID-19 patients are currently being treated in Lithuanian hospitals, 142 of them in resuscitation. Oxygen is added to 1,063 patients and 81 patients receive artificial lung ventilation.
149 people were hospitalized for COVID-19 on the last day.
A total of 244,000 COVID-19 patients in Lithuania have fallen ill since the start of the pandemic. 555 people. According to the declared data, 60 thousand people are still sick. 292 infected, but it is statistically estimated that 15 thousand should be sick. 238 people.
A total of 3,900 people have died in Lithuania since COVID-19. 7,874 deaths are directly and indirectly related to this infectious disease.
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