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What the COVID-19 front looked like to this day
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated in the last nine months, has not escaped even to the most remote corners of the world, affecting each of us, but the biggest challenges have been faced by doctors and everyone else. who work in health.
Conspiracy theories that the infection does not exist end on the doorstep of a hospital, clinic, or nursing home when infected patients and doctors weary from constant stress.
Many doctors have experienced the symptoms of illness caused by the pandemic virus themselves, most of them were exposed to the infection at work, but they lost the professional risks of sick doctors. how we are committed.
The ongoing pandemic months, the fading hopes that the infection will recede soon, the undoubted increase in morbidity in the fall and winter months, sow the feelings of fatigue, irritability, fear, dissatisfaction felt and expressed by a physician often working on the “front lines” of this war. In the spring, I was visited more than once by the thought that before the pandemic reached Lithuania, we managed to prepare ourselves both physically and morally. Fears were certainly in everyone’s heart and mind, but the beds in the hospital or the resuscitation room were enough for everyone, none of us had to make the most difficult decision: choosing which patient to rescue and who we can no longer help.
How it looks today
Today, the situation is much more complex, as the number of infected people and the tension in both society and the medical community increase. The situation has changed especially in recent weeks, when the decisions of all levels of the administration (SAM, Vilnius City Municipality, organizational and patient support administrations) had to be taken very quickly.
When all the beds in the infectious diseases unit are filled for COVID-19 infection, when all the surveillance isolation rooms are full and a patient who suffocates in an admitting department of a hospital has to wait 24 hours in a hospital, the number of such patients increases by the hour and access to oxygen in other hospital wards is to some extent, the stresses of all of us are already difficult to measure.
In recent days, the administration of the organizing hospital has had to make immediate decisions, even feeling a flush of dissatisfaction, reproach or even anger. It is understood that any change – the participation of a doctor of any specialty, a specialist in non-infectious diseases, the retraining of another hospital ward – would begin in a normal time of discussions and discussions, of medical training, training.
Even if sometimes we feel that time is lacking for common agreements, we have chosen a way of life where the life of a person, his health is the greatest value for which we fight, even when we are very tired, sometimes frustrated, perhaps even feeling injustice. It is understandable, very human.
There have been and definitely will be mistakes, perhaps not all decisions of decision makers at different levels will be correct, there may be more and more time for conversations, discussions and finding compromises. But now we all have a duty to save lives.
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