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It turned out that the Nursing Unit, which had 32 patients, almost randomly diagnosed an outbreak of coronavirus in 22 of them, 17 of whom had not been vaccinated, 3 had been vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine and two had been vaccinated. with both doses of the vaccine.
Although the majority of older people who receive nursing treatment are not vaccinated, they fall ill easily, most of them even asymptomatic.
Only one patient was transferred to COVID-19, but not because her condition was serious, but only because she needed antibiotics.
Why weren’t the vast majority of patients in the Nursing Department vaccinated anyway? Who is responsible for this?
No deaths associated with the coronavirus
“One patient died the same day that we discovered that the patients had positive PCR tests. Another patient was taken to the infection room and died there the next day. Another patient died shortly after.
All the dead were in extremely serious condition, with many comorbidities. His death is not associated with the coronavirus, ”reported Rita Kuodienė, who is currently the head of Kėdainiai Hospital.
Two of the dead were not vaccinated and one was vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The process is easy
R. Kuodienė says that the outbreak was found in the Nursing Department almost by accident. The patients had no pronounced symptoms specific to the disease.
“We had to take some patients from the Nursing Unit to the nursing home, and they had to have CRP tests according to the planned procedure. Only then did it turn out that there were sick people.
They have no fever, no cough, and no suffocation; its course is slight. Some have already entered the asymptomatic phase and are recovering.
A patient currently being treated in the COVID-19 ward is given antibiotics. However, she is not in that ward because the course of her illness would be very severe, but because antibiotics cannot be administered to patients in the Nursing Ward according to the planned procedure, “said R. Kuodienė.
This patient was not vaccinated.
Vaccine suture
Kėdainiai Hospital reports that some of the patients in the Nursing Department have been in it for a relatively short time: they were admitted from September 15 to 17. There are patients who entered the ward from August 23-24, several of whom have been in it since late July.
For unvaccinated patients, the hospital team offered vaccinations more than once, but according to R. Kuodienė, doctors have no weapons in their arsenal without speaking and requesting them.
“If people don’t want to be vaccinated, we really can’t vaccinate them by coercion. We can’t pressure them, we can’t take more drastic action and, let’s say, keep them out of the department.
We just talk, talk and talk again.
We may want to take some tougher measures, but we can’t, “said the hospital director.
He added that there have been cases where a patient agrees to be vaccinated but calls his children before then. These vaccines are prohibited and the patient again refuses the vaccination.
Severe patients
As R. Kuodienė emphasized, the death of deceased patients from the Nursing Department is not related to the coronavirus.
“It should be understood that people in the nursing room suffer from many serious and comorbid illnesses. Some of them with dementia, some of them selfish, constantly lying in bed.
The people in this unit are already in very difficult conditions.
That patient exit is in progress. Some are aging longer with medical care, others are going faster.
In this case, the coronavirus did not play any decisive role here, ”says the interlocutor.
Sick and having opportunities to obtain passports.
R. Kuodienė says that it is impossible to determine where the spread of the coronavirus began in the Nursing Department. It is possible that the patients have infected each other, it is possible that the disease was brought by a visitor.
According to the doctor, more than one case has been registered when people with antibodies receive passports of opportunity, and the next day it turns out that they have coronavirus.
In this case, the passport of opportunity opens all doors for the sick person, and people armed with this document forget even the basic measures of self-protection and protection, for example, wearing masks.
People who have received a passport with a small amount of antibodies walk freely and continue to spread the disease, as they often suffer from an asymptomatic form of the disease and do not even know where the antibodies come from.
The situation is manageable
Although the number of patients in the Nursing Department can be alarming, R. Kuodienė says the situation is under control. The vast majority of patients feel fine and their relatives are constantly informed about their condition.
It is true that visiting coronavirus patients is prohibited.
Only children under the age of 14 and terminally ill patients can visit Kėdainiai Hospital.
“We really allow those patients to visit us. And we say goodbye to extroverted loved ones. Sometimes there are differences of opinion between staff and family about when the patient is about to leave. Doctors consider a terminal illness to be a situation in which a person has very little time to live: a few hours, a day or two.
Relatives of the patient often think that the family member is already dying because he did not walk during the day. While the patient eats, he talks. Here, the opinions of doctors and the population sometimes differ and this can lead to dissatisfaction.
As the pandemic situation worsens, we must take stricter protective measures and hope that the situation will return to normal soon.
The Nursing Unit now has a doctor and a nurse who have worked in the COVID-19 unit and know how to handle the situation.
Patients will be re-examined and hopefully this approach will soon be discontinued, ”said R. Kuodienė.
