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Representatives from the Kaunas Clinics of the Lithuanian University Health Sciences Hospital, which has become the focus of the coronavirus, share the latest information on the situation at the medical institution.
“Starting tomorrow, the care services scheduled for patients in the Central Clinical Profile Clinics (Rheumatology, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nephrology, Otorhinolaryngological Diseases, Surgery, Pneumology, Gastroenterology and Urology Clinics) will be renewed, with the exception of the Clinic of Surgery. Here, patients continue to receive only emergency and outpatient care. We plan to resume the anticipated hospitalization of patients at the Surgery Clinic starting next week. In all other units, services are provided in the usual way, ”said the head of the Communication Service of the Kaunas Clinics on Monday morning. specialist Eglė Karalienė.
At present, the Surgery Clinic provides patients with all necessary assistance and performs emergency operations. The department employs doctors who have not been in full contact with the sick.
The Chief Specialist of the Communication Service told the portal kauno.diena.lt that a new Department of Surgery was formed over the weekend. Currently, the Surgery Clinic provides patients with all the necessary assistance and performs emergency operations. The department employs doctors who have not had full contact with the sick. Patients are not placed in the Surgery Clinic temporarily (until the end of this week) for elective surgery. After assessing the situation, a decision will be made at the end of the week about the renewal of the services scheduled at this clinic, ”added E. Karalienė.
According to the representative of the medical institution, there are currently about 16 doctors from the Kaunas clinics who have been diagnosed with the COVID-19 disease. There are more than 100 employees in self-isolation who have had risky contact with the sick.
Currently, 12 patients with COVID-19 are treated in clinics in Kaunas. Of these, 4 patients are treated in the Intensive Care Unit. Some of these patients were also treated at the Surgery Clinic.
According to E. Karalienė, 2,500 tests for COVID-19 were carried out on the staff of the Kaunas clinics over the weekend. “Everyone who has been in contact with COVID-19 has been identified and the high- and medium-risk workers in self-isolation have been identified. We remind you that all Kaunas clinics do not allow patient visits. Patients should only be visited in an emergency, with the permission of the head of the department or the doctor on duty. The most necessary personal belongings can be delivered to patients through the reservation booth in the lobby of the Central Building, ”said E. Karalienė.
Head: There were not that many people infected.
The National Center for Public Health announced on Monday that another case of coronavirus infection was registered last day, which is related to the outbreak in the Department of Surgery of the Kaunas Clinics.
Over the weekend, the portal announced that eleven patients and seven members of the ward’s staff suffered from coronavirus. Renaldas Jurkevičius, the head of the hospital, told BNS on Saturday that there were not such a number of infected people in a department of the Clinics.
During the last day, 205 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania, the total number is 7726.
There are still 4,468 people who are considered recovered, 3,110.
113 people have died since COVID-19, and another 35 have died from other causes.
The isolation currently contains 32 thousand. 220 people.
As of June 1, 352 import cases had been registered in Lithuania.
3253 samples were analyzed per day for suspected coronavirus, a total of 893 thousand samples were analyzed since the start of the pandemic. 14 samples.
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