Doctors warn of danger in summer: ambulances line up and patients lie in the corridor

“We bathed, we went out on the catwalk, it was slippery, I slipped to the side and came to check,” a man they met at the hospital told LNK.

Another patient said that he had broken his ankle. The woman who was there said that the board had failed her leg, the next day her leg began to swell and it was no longer possible to walk.

Some have to lie down in the hallway because there are no more places in the hospital to accommodate trauma patients.

“We fired 364 trauma patients who applied for the first time. The workload of several doctors is really very high. Many ankle ligaments, foot ligament injuries, fractures, foot injuries. People bathe a lot, bodies of water are contaminated with shards of glass, ”said Artūras Šulnius, Head of the Department of Admissions, Emergencies and Injuries at Kaunas Hospital.

According to the doctor, most people turn on on weekends, especially the first half of Saturday and Sunday nights, when everyone returns from rest areas.

Rescuers on the beaches also have to help rescuers.

“It often happens because they swim deeper and get trapped behind pebbles. But here in the Lampėdis quarry, I would say, not so much, more in the Kaunas lagoon. People gather there in the evenings, drink alcohol, pound bottles. “Said the man. Salvador Pranas Urbelis.

Peak of work and ambulance for doctors. An ambulance goes to the trauma department and, due to the large number of patients, they have to queue. Sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes more. Paramedic Virginijus Gailutis says queues are often forming at this time.

“Many patients cannot enter, places are missing,” said the paramedic.

The situation is also worse with children: about 30 traumatized minors are admitted to the Kaunas hospital emergency department every day.

“Child falls, trampolines, small injuries. Older children are injured when they fall from electric vehicles, scooters, they don’t wear helmets, ”Algirdas Dagys, a pediatric intensive care physician at the Kaunas Clinics, told LNK News.

The pediatrician says that now the most popular children’s vehicles are the most dangerous for them.

“It just came to our attention then. Bicycles were all the rage last year. 90 percent. No operations required, 10 percent. Go to operating rooms and a small percentage to resuscitation,” said A. Dagys.

Last year, 385 cyclists were injured and 15 died in Lithuania. 101 scooters were also injured and 2 died.