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Some respite, and COVID-19 wards in hospitals began to fill up again.
80 percent complete. Beds
According to Aušra Bilotienė Motiejūnienė, Director of Management of the Santara Clinics, the employment of these departments in the Vilnius region reaches 80%, although the situation in Alytus county is much better: only about 60% are employed there. COVID-19 patient beds.
The numbers are sadder in Vilnius county: at the branch of the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital (VMKL) Antakalnio str. 124 occupied up to 95 percent. places, in the Santara clinics, about 80 percent.
“A week ago, the 25-bed Trakai Hospital ward was opened, which has already reached 70%. job. During the weekend, as in a normal day, there were prescriptions for the patients, which allowed us to survive on 80 percent. job. Because otherwise, if we didn’t prescribe 15-20 patients a day, we’d be close to 100 percent across the region. seats occupied.
We are now accommodating 50-60 patients a day, and just three weeks ago there was a decrease and we were happy to have 25, sometimes 30 patients. We’ve seen it almost double for a couple of weeks. We are preparing for it, we are looking at the forecasts, what the analysts are offering, the experts and what we are showing, it is likely that the situation will go back to the way it was. Perhaps only the number of patients is not so drastic, ”said A.Bilotienė Motiejūnienė.
Now we go to bed between 50 and 60 patients a day, and 3 weeks ago we were happy to have 25, sometimes 30 patients.
Like december
In terms of complexity, the number of patients, according to the managing director of Clinicas Santara, is the situation we had in early or mid-December:
“It is difficult to say how much that curve will rise and what the situation will be here because there are varieties.
About half of the patients at Santara’s clinics are of the British variety, making it difficult to predict anything. But according to the available forecasts, a possible rise in a couple of weeks more. We plan to look forward to the holidays with extra beds. “
Sigismund Gedvila / 15 min photo / Aušra Bilotienė Motiejūnienė
Discussions are ongoing with the Vilnius City Municipality VMKL as there is a very high probability that patient flows will need to be reviewed and additional COVID-19 units will need to be opened if necessary.
The situation should start to clear up in the middle of the week, however, A.Bilotienė Motiejūnienė is not optimistic: even after registering those who have recovered or are recovering quickly, employment in Vilnius county departments reaches 80 %.
About half of the patients at Santara’s clinics are of the British variety, making it difficult to predict anything.
“If necessary, we will talk about fundamental changes in Vilnius. Calle Antakalnio 124 branches already have room to expand as there is no need to expand the main building on Antakalnio str. 57. Only to the extent that there is still no full-time work there, since the services are provided by the same staff as in the COVID-19 units, but they are a little more necessary. This means that the scope of hospital services is a little smaller, so this option is being specifically considered ” said the head of the Santara clinic.
Younger patients
When asked about the patients, A.Bilotienė Motiejūnienė said that they are getting younger and younger.
“If we used to have a large proportion of patients who were over 70 years old, now most of us are probably people between 50 and 65 years old. There are quite a few and even up to 40 years, about 16 percent of them. of all those who are treated at the Santara clinics.
We can already see that patients are not only older. Only those over the age of 70 make up a small portion. And only about 5 percent of patients over the age of 80. The largest group: more than 28 percent. – consists of 50-60 years, so really younger patients “.
If vaccination could have influenced such changes, A.Bilotienė Motiejūnienė was in no rush to say so. This may be one of the reasons, as some older people got sick during the second wave, others are safer.
If in December we had more than 500 employees with COVID-19, and now we have 35.
“It’s still hard to say today whether vaccination has affected you. What we can really say is that there are no vaccines among people aged 50 to 65. But perhaps it should be said that vaccination matters, so to speak, by looking at workers.
If in December we had more than 500 workers with COVID-19, and now we have 35, that is less than one percent, which means that the vaccination takes effect. At least we are happy because there are no patients en masse or in self-isolation and we have human resources, “said A.Bilotienė Motiejūnienė.
A patient with a PAR mutation is monitored
A patient with PAR COVID-19 is also being treated at the Santara clinics.
As the managing director said, he is not in resuscitation, but the patients admitted to the Santara clinics are in moderate to severe condition.
However, this patient is not prescribed to travel home, he needs a minimum of oxygen, the doctors monitor the well-being of this hospital.
“His condition does not allow outpatient treatment at this time, therefore he is treated in the hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, like all COVID-19 patients,” said A.Bilotienė Motiejūnienė.
Last Friday, the Health Ministry announced that the sequencing of the virus genome shows that the British region is already dominated by a more susceptible British strain of coronavirus.
In random samples, the deficiency characteristic of the S gene of this strain is 70-80%. cases.
It was in the municipalities of Vilnius County that the highest morbidity in 14 days out of 100 thousand was recorded. population.
The increase in the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Vilnius region, which began in mid-February, is also associated with the British strain of coronavirus and increasing morbidity.
Half of all COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Lithuania are currently hospitalized in the Vilnius region.
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