Mazeikiai Hospital opened its doors: patients talked about how their treatment was going

COVID-19 really doesn’t exist? What is a reality without distortions or adulterations? What is the daily life of the doctors and patients treated at Mažeikiai hospital? This was reported by the hospital patients themselves and the doctor responsible for COVID-19.

“It was very difficult to breathe, the oxygen was on day and night, and I had very hard control over all my limbs. I was addicted to all the rest of the staff, I couldn’t go to the bathroom myself. The muscles also hurt a lot.

I am very grateful to Dr. Žukauskas and also to all the staff who work very sincerely. I would like to advise people to protect each other and themselves as much as possible, to wear masks and to protect their health, ”said one of the patients.

Another man with coronavirus said he was very asphyxiated, so he was admitted to the Mažeikiai hospital.

“I immediately connected to oxygen because I was short of air in my lungs. Already on day 13, everything is improving. The room is perfectly equipped with the oxygen that is carried to each bed, which can be adjusted by each person. Not really I’ve been to the hospital in my life, I play sports my whole life, and somewhere, probably at work, I caught it. It was even a week ago, the temperature started to rise, I thought it was just a runny nose, the flu , but with each passing day it got worse and worse. I went to do a test, it turns out kovidas. “

According to him, he was always healthy, he had no health problems, so anyone could be infected anywhere.

“Someone might say ‘this virus won’t accept me’, but here’s the probability theory.”

It has one section and three subsections

Daumantas Straukas, the medic who coordinates the work of the COVID-19 unit, said they have three combat subdivisions.

“The condition of the patients lying in them is distinguished according to those subsections. The first section is in the most difficult patients, who really need a lot of oxygen, need intensive care, monitoring, medication. The other subsections refer to patients who are lighter due to the oxygen supply.

In the first covid section we have a centralized oxygen supply, it can give higher concentration, higher speed. In other chapters, we don’t have these opportunities. There are portable oxygen cylinders, so the heaviest patients lie first fight subsection ”.

Depending on the doctor, the duration of treatment for patients varies. It depends on the condition of the patient, but varies from 10 to 20 days.

“If he is a serious patient and during the course of the treatment his condition improves, that is, he no longer suffocates, he no longer has a fever, we keep him for 20 days. If it’s a milder patient who didn’t have a high oxygen demand, all the symptoms went away faster, we keep it shorter. Sometimes it happens if the patient feels well, but his initial state was very difficult, we can also take him home, but in this case isolation at home is needed ”, commented D. Straukas.

Is it really worth being afraid of the coronavirus if you are young? According to the doctor, this cannot be said because there have been cases in which young and strong people have become seriously ill.

“All they could do was just lie in bed and breathe. These people were unable to go to the sink to perform basic hygiene tasks: washing or brushing their teeth. Without a supply of oxygen, patients may have difficulty eating due to lack of air.

Of course, most are elderly patients. This means that they have more comorbidities, such as chronic lung disease, heart failure, but that also does not always mean that an older person will need hospital treatment because they may have a milder form. “

Mr. Strauke also noted that with the increase in the number of sick people and patients in the hospital, there is a severe shortage of staff and additional hands to cope with the increased workload. He also added that many workers also walked away because they themselves became ill.

“It makes the work very difficult because we ourselves are tired of that work. Since some colleagues have retired and are not working, we also have to cover their working hours. We share it all the time. “

Also in response to skeptics who don’t believe in the virus, they said there is a simple way to convince them.

“Let it come to us covid section, it helps nurses, staff, perhaps as support staff to consume, feed, administer medication to patients, but to see that patient directly. And it would be even better if we came without guards, then in two weeks we would be in the same room with us. “