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Klaip Klada Seamen’s Hospital BNS reported that a total of 242 patients are currently being treated at Klaipėda University, Klaipėda Seamen’s, Republican Klaipėda Hospitals and Kretinga, Šilutė, Šilalė and Tauragė District Hospitals.
“Most hospitals have all the beds planned for Covid-19 patients. As the number of Covid-19 patients continues to rise, spare hospital beds will be used. There is a shortage of medical staff in all hospitals treating Covid-19 patients, ”the hospital said.
The Kaunas Hospital of the Lithuanian Health Sciences University (LSMU) has indicated that more than 300 of the approximately 340 beds for COVID-19, including resuscitation sites, are occupied. Patients infected by coronavirus without LSMU Kaunas Hospital receive treatment in Kaunas clinics as well as Kedainiai hospitals.
Erik Ovcharenko / 15min photo / LSMU Kaunas Hospital
“Taking into account the increasing number of infected patients and the rapid bed occupancy dynamics by COVID-19, 2 resuscitation beds have been established in Kėdainiai, Jonava and Prienai hospitals since last Thursday, and 4 patients with COVID- 19 in Marijampolė and Jurbarkas hospitals, resuscitation beds. In addition, 25 therapeutic beds were installed in Jonava Hospital, 5 additional beds in Prienai Hospital and 4 additional COVID-19 beds in Jurbarkas Hospital, “reported Kaunas Hospital.
The number of beds in Kėdainiai has been expanded to another 20 since Saturday.
LSMU Kaunas Hospital also claims that the capacity of health professionals is sufficient for some doctors to be isolated and others to return from isolation.
In all hospitals in the country, 1,369 people are currently being treated for coronavirus, 107 of them in resuscitation.
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