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Most (up to 65-70%) of these patients receive outpatient treatment after medical examinations and tests. However, doctors also notice a worrying situation when patients are diagnosed with advanced or long-lasting illnesses in the hospital emergency department.
During the first week of January, several patients diagnosed with advanced oncological disease arrived daily at the Emergency Service. The patients had not been ill before, but had been experiencing symptoms for several months, but had not reported anywhere.
Patients also arrive on a daily basis due to inadequate treatment and care for chronic diseases. Most often, these patients go to the Emergency Department for exacerbated heart failure, late arrhythmias, chest pain. Surgeons also see an increase in the number of patients complicating chronic surgical disease, making their treatment much more complicated and lengthy, with a worse prognosis.
Doctors encourage and ask patients to contact their family doctors without delay and to participate in programs for the prevention of breast, prostate, cervix, colon cancer and prevention of cardiovascular cancer, to investigate new complaints and to treat chronic diseases responsibly. .
© Tomas Preikša
The Republican Šiauliai Hospital offers outpatient consultations for all medical specialists and the “green corridors” system is working successfully, allowing patients with suspected cancer disease to be examined for the first time in the shortest possible time. GPs are requested to refer patients to specific treatment as soon as possible.
The Hospital Guidance Department ensures a safe environment, regulates patient flow, and does everything possible to prevent possible infection, so there is no need to be afraid to visit for counseling and scheduled procedures. However, you should actively seek out your GPs, carry out the necessary tests and, if necessary, go to the GPs for consultations and tests when the GP believes you need a specialized consultation.
Not only does the hospital provide emergency care: planned day hospital services are also provided and a scheduled hospitalization is in progress. Doctors remember an old and well-known truth: the treatment of diseases diagnosed in time allows to expect the best possible result, and the constant and complete treatment of chronic diseases guarantees a good quality of life.
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