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“If an additional 100 beds are not installed for the treatment of coronavirus infections in the Vilnius region today and tomorrow, the provision of care to new patients will be disrupted,” says Aušra Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė, managing director of Santara Clinics .
According to her, the target set so far that on Tuesday there would be 30 additional places in the Alytus V. Kudirka and Ukmergė hospitals, 10 in the Druskininkai hospital and 60 in the Vilnius city clinical hospital will not be reached.
“As a service organization, we strongly ask for focus, goodwill, and prompt response from all partners. We all understand that we have to adopt convenient and not so common solutions to guarantee help to all patients ”, says A.Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė.
Sigismund Gedvila / 15 min photo / Aušra Bilotienė Motiejūnienė
According to the hospital that organizes the treatment of patients with COVID-19 in the region, the Santara clinics treat 154 patients with COVID-19, three of them children. 28 of the patients are treated in the Resuscitation and Intensive Care Unit.
As a service organization, we strongly ask for focus, goodwill, and prompt response from all partners.
A further 208 patients are treated in support hospitals: 122 in Vilnius City Clinical Hospital, four of them in resuscitation, 43 in Alytus V. Kudirka Hospital (four in resuscitation), 27 in Ukmergė Hospital (two in resuscitation ), 16 patients at the Vilnius Republic Hospital.
According to the Santara clinics, the need to cooperate not only within the region, but also to share capacities between regional institutions, is becoming clear, so the burden and challenges for organizational institutions are only growing. Currently, 36 of the 47 intensive care centers for resuscitation in the region are installed in the Santara clinics.
“A very important issue is not only the preparation of the treatment sites as soon as possible, but also the personnel who can work. We must make decisions today so that tomorrow there will be someone to treat the sick,” says one of the heads the Santara clinics.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Quarantine in Vilnius
According to her, it is considering using outside help: residents, polyclinic staff, doctors from other hospitals or using the help of self-employed doctors to work with patients with COVID-19.
“I think there is no single correct solution. Most likely we will have to think about combining both options,” says A.Bilotienė Motiejūnienė.
According to her, the clinics will continue to strengthen their strengths in this sector, providing services to the most difficult patients, making it necessary for other hospitals in the region to help care for the remaining patients.
The Santara clinics are used to treat patients with the most severe form of Covid-19 who do not respond to artificial lung ventilation due to respiratory failure caused by viral lung damage. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECM) is used in these patients.
On Tuesday, 14 additional resuscitation and intensive care sites for COVID-19 patients will begin operating in clinics.
An ECMO unit is opened for patients with the most severe lung injury, where oxygen must be delivered directly to the blood to sustain life. The newly installed EKMO room can treat 7 COVID-19 patients simultaneously.
Currently 1,369 people are being treated for coronavirus in hospitals, 107 of whom are in resuscitation.
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