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While writing wyborcza.pl, the coronavirus pandemic brings new challenges to Poland. There are already a shortage of free beds, breathing apparatus and staff in hospitals, and the Ministry of Health continues to boast of supposed success in the fight against COVID-19.
Lack of respiratory system
As Gazeta Wyborcza told reporters, infectious disease prevention expert Dr. Pawel Grzesiowski received a call from the Mazovia County Hospital, whose staff is looking for a ventilator for a patient with COVID-19 disease, but not one. found throughout the voivodeship. They only have 24 hours to search because later it will be too late.
In our hospital, there are two COVID-19 patients in the emergency department. A week ago, when a patient with a positive result arrived, the whole room was closed, now I have COVID-19 daily, so it should be closed daily.
The new infection records suggest that there will be more similar cases in Poland in the near future. Hospitals are forced to treat coronavirus patients in the same rooms as other patients, doctors report in closed social media groups. Here’s a doctor who writes: “In our hospital, there are two COVID-19 patients in the emergency department. A week ago, when a patient came in with a positive test, the whole room was closed, and now I have COVID-19 every day, so it should be closed every day.
Such placement of patients in shared rooms threatens new outbreaks of the disease. To date, COVID-19 has infected almost 1.4 thousand people in Poland. doctors, 3.2 thousand. nurses, more than 300 ambulance doctors.
There are already hospitals in Gdansk, Krakow, Ciesyn, Radom about to accept no more patients. In Warsaw, almost all beds are occupied by the Hospital for Infectious Diseases and various other medical institutions. Of the 76 respirators available in the Mazovian Voivodeship, 46 are in use. Similarly, a week ago 152 respirators were used nationwide, now 296.
Reuters / Photo by Scanpix / Coronavirus checkpoint in Warsaw
The real and official information does not match
However, experts fear that the situation will be handled only on paper; according to reports sent by the voivodeship leaders, everything looks much better than it really is. Here, a hospital reports that it has 30 breathing apparatus and there are only four that are really usable and of which there is someone to care for. Official statistics also include equipment stored or used by other patients.
And even if they have such equipment, hospitals lack nurses in intensive care units who know how to use it, says Gazeta Wyborcza, leaders of the All-Poland Union of Nurses. And an unskilled worker with such a device can pose a fatal threat.
Here a hospital reports that it has 30 breathing apparatus and in fact there are only 4 suitable to use and those that are available to serve.
Fear, as you write wyborcza.pl, can already be felt in the reports and official speeches of the Ministry of Health. Here, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski warned on state television TVP that the capacity limit of the health care system has almost been reached.
The public, however, is already tired of this pandemic and there is a reluctance to follow the rules, say, to wear masks correctly. The police threaten fines.
Deterioration throughout Europe
In Latvia, a record number of new COVID-19 cases were detected in 4,416 tests last day, 109. A total of 2,370 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Latvia since the beginning of the epidemic, 40 people have died cause of the disease and 1,322 have recovered.
In Estonia, 1,500 new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection were detected in 1,500 tests last day, killing 67 people since the outbreak, for a total of 3,760 cases of coronavirus infection.
In Latvia, a record number of new COVID-19 cases were detected in 4,416 tests last day, 109.
The situation is also deteriorating in other European countries. In Germany, the number of infected people has increased by 4,058 more to 310,144 in the last day, with 16 deaths (the total number of deaths from COVID-19 has reached 9,578). The highest growth was recorded in Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg.
Julius Kalinskas / 15min photo / COVID-19 checkpoint in Vilnius
Brussels closes all bars from Thursday. The leaders of the region decided to try to stop the spread of the virus in this way, as the situation in Brussels is the worst compared to other regions of the country. Across Europe, Brussels ranks second after Madrid in terms of infection rates.
The number of people infected with COVID-19 is also growing in Ukraine, with 5,397 cases registered in the last day, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. Most of the cases are found in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine.
In Russia, 11,493 new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection were detected in the last day and 191 previously infected people died. Since the beginning of the epidemic, a total of 1,260,112 cases of COVID-19 have been detected in the country, with 22,056 deaths.
The National Public Health Center (NVSC) reports that 142 cases of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) were confirmed in Lithuania last day. Another person who had COVID-19 died, he was from Šiauliai County and belonged to the age group of 70 to 79 years.
NVSC reports that a total of 5,625 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Lithuania, 2,842 people remain ill and 2,660 have recovered.
Read more here: In Lithuania – 142 new COVID-19 cases, another person died, the virus continues to spread in sports clubs, Blinstrubiškės nursing home.
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