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There will be 130 seats
According to Podersky on Facebook, last week was the preparation of VMKL to treat COVID-19 patients the biggest challenge:
“The usual commitment to prepare for this is 5 days. After shrugging our shoulders together with other hospitals and GMP, we did it in 3 days. Of course, this required raising many patients to be treated at home or in other hospitals. and it was definitely a great stress for everyone. As of Friday, about 30 patients are being treated there, the capacity is 65 patients and we will expand it to 130 soon. Many thanks to all the hospital staff and especially to the doctors who save lives! “
Last week, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga spoke about the fact that the city of Vilnius is not adequately cooperating with the Santara clinics in preparing new places for COVID-19 patients. However, Narimantas Markevičius, director of VMKL, stated that work was being done on preparing the wards for these patients and explained that they would be treated at the hospital branch in Antakalnio str. 124.
Read more here: Vilnius City Clinical Hospital is becoming an institution that treats COVID-19 patients, but does not stop scheduled services.
On Sunday, Santara Clinics reported that, as of November 1, Santara Clinics is treating 104 patients with Covid-19, including eight in the Resuscitation and Intensive Care Unit. The hospital had vacancies in COVID Unit II, recently established COVID Unit III at the Pediatric Center and Vilnius City Clinical Hospital.
The challenge of a temporary hospital is the staff
The Vilnius City Municipality, in turn, has already organized two meetings of the Vilnius Health Team. This team unites all medical institutions and medical organizations operating in Vilnius. This time, according to P. Podersky, the main focus of the meeting was the temporary hospitals.
“A temporary hospital would be needed if all the other capacities available for inpatients in other hospitals were filled. Contrary to popular belief, it is not difficult to build such an item, it is much more difficult to provide it with the right staff. E.g. The 500-place hospital should have: 149 doctors, 252 nurses, 252 nursing assistants.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15 min photo / COVID-19 patients are taken to the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital
To understand how difficult this will be and how much more we need to solve before we can do it, we have started an exercise. All health facilities in the region received an invitation to join the temporary hospital to fill the staff starting on November 6. Until the 16th of November. In this way, we will collect information on available capacity and find gaps that we must fill through training or others. means, “wrote P. Poderskis.
In the spring, when the need for a temporary hospital in Vilnius was first discussed, the aforementioned LITEXPO congress and exhibition center was established here. It wasn’t necessary then, but the growing number of infections in the fall is returning to this thinking.
Thinking about relocating infected nursing patients
The director of the municipal administration also informs that the municipality has renewed the medical self-isolation service: “Now they can do it in the hotel if necessary, we have also enabled a separate hotel for the sick and we plan to add another more convenient location in the near future . This is one of the commitments to the Vilnius health team. “
Another issue that needs to be addressed is nursing home patients who have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Now they occupy hospital places or receive treatment in the same residence or residence. “These are high-risk areas, so this process is not suitable for preventing spread in nursing homes. Such patients with a milder form should be concentrated in one of the nursing hospitals in the Vilnius region, where they would receive services: treatment and care. There was a proposal to do it at the Vilnius M. Marcinkevičius Hospital, but it seems that together with SAM and the organizing hospital we managed to find better options and we are currently in talks with the Vilnius regional institutions, of which 200 patients should not be withdrawn to do COVID-19 nursing treatment. We look forward to this decision, “wrote P. Poderskis.
The location of the mobile points near the Siemens Arena, where COVID-19 tests are conducted, is unofficially named by the Vilnius municipality as the V. Gerulaitis Health Campus. Here, according to P. Podersky, temporary floors are laid at the points, because the weather is cool, so it will be more comfortable and warm. In addition, the shuttle service to mobile points is offered again in Vilnius.
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